Re: How to change a script's environment after the script is already run, based on shell sourcing ?

Assuming you have the filename ahead of time, just parse it yourself:

our $file = '/etc/profiles/bashrc.ora.v.10';
open my $fh, "< $file" or die "open: $!";

while (defined($_ = <$fh>))
{
    next unless /^export\s+([A-Za-z]\w+)=(.*)$/;
    $ENV{$1} = $2;
}

close($fh);
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--rjray

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Re^2: How to change a script's environment after the script is already run, based on shell sourcing ? by graff (Chancellor) on Sep 29, 2006 at 00:20 UTC
That would probably work fine for a majority of cases, where the shell script for environment setup tends to be pretty simple and explicit. It's a good-enough solution when you know enough about the shell script to trust that it will work. But I can easily imagine (and have seen) examples where the value assigned to a relevant exported variable refers to some other shell variable that was set previously in the same file (and not necessarily exported), or is the output of some back-ticked command, or other arcane cleverness. For shell scripts like that, you really don't want this approach.	[reply]
Re^3: How to change a script's environment after the script is already run, based on shell sourcing ? by rjray (Chaplain) on Sep 29, 2006 at 04:18 UTC
True, but the original author hinted that the file contained only simple environment variables in the vein of `ORACLE_SID` and similar. There's probably a CPAN module already that handles the special cases and back-ticks, in fact... `--rjray`	[reply]