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in thread values from perl to sh script

Nevermind, I have it. I an exporting my variables to env, then the script has them. e.g echo ${ENVVAR} Thanks for your consideration.

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Re^4: values from perl to sh script
by rev_1318 (Chaplain) on Jul 15, 2005 at 07:52 UTC
    If the Perl program is started from your shell script and you want to let it return data to that shell script, setting environment variables won't do you any good. A child process (the Perl program) cannot alter it's parent's (ht e shell script) environment!

    Paul