in reply to Re: CLASSPATH in perl on windows using cygwin
in thread CLASSPATH in perl on windows using cygwin

$CLASSPATH=`cat file_with_classpath`; is perfectly acceptable, and probably better in general than setting an environment var. I might have Perl open the file on its own to read the contents instead of calling cat, though. IO::All is nice for this:

use IO::All;
$CLASSPATH = io('file_with_classpath')->slurp;

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