in reply to Exec script within script or import sub...? help plz

do will "do" this.
Two files, one named "priv" and one named "unpriv". Their contents:
priv:
sub priv { print "Privileged\n"; }

unpriv:
sub priv { print "Unprivileged\n"; }

Now, in your main program, you can:
#!/usr/bin/perl do "unpriv"; priv(); do "priv"; priv();

Which when run:
> perl main Privileged Unprivileged >