I have a bourne shell script that sets a bunch of environment variables. From another bourne shell script I would just call as: . /usr/local/env.sh

I've written a perl script that I need to get those same environment variables set in. I tried doing:

my %BB_ENV = `/bin/sh . /usr/local/env.sh`;
%ENV = { %ENV, %BB_ENV };

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Any ideas how I could achieve this?

Thanks!

Hopefully, I am updating this correctly. :)

I couldn't get any of the suggestions to work. The file has comments, "export" lines, etc. Not a simple "Var=value" type of setup. So, I wound up doing this:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -f /usr/local/env.sh ]; then
   . /usr/local/env.sh
fi
exec perl -wx "$0" "$@"
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
....

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That is working. Thanks for all of the suggestions!

In reply to get environment variables from a bourne file by BradV

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