in reply to Perl/UNIX .profile problem

If you really want to obfu it:
$file = "/home/user/.profile"; grep(do{chop;s/(.*)=(.*)/$ENV{$1}=$2/e;},`. $file; env`);
But I am sure that there are better solutions.
Yours,

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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
BMC, Belgium