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You have to use the magic ampersand: 

`perl some_script.cgi 'blah=foo&larh=bar'`;

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jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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Re^2: CGI from another script
by rsiedl (Friar) on Sep 02, 2005 at 13:57 UTC
    i wrote a couple of test scripts before posting and they seemed to work fine without the ampersand...
    tmp.pl 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $id = 1;
my $auth_id = 150;
my $blah = `perl ./tmp.cgi id=$id auth_id=$auth_id draw=1 raw=raw`;
print $blah, "\n";
exit;

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    tmp.cgi 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw(:all);
my $q = new CGI;
my $id = $q->param("id");
my $auth_id = $q->param("auth_id");
my $draw = $q->param("draw");
my $raw = $q->param("raw");
print $id, "\n";
print $auth_id, "\n";
print $draw, "\n";
print $raw, "\n";
exit;

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    I wonder if it is because the first one was a perl script run from the command line rather than a cgi from the browser?
    Update: I just updated my original script and the amp's arent helping either. But they do still work in the test script... hmmmm
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      ... or because the quoting (or OS) is different? Compare jeffa's -- which adds single quotes (which the op lacks) around the var list as well as the ampersand.
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        yeah, i saw that and also tried it with quotes. doesnt seem to make a difference.
        I've investigated a bit more and it looks like the .cgi script i am calling from the first script, is getting the vars from the first scripts vars...
        Just about to do an update on my orig post for more info...
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