in reply to Changing a unix users environment

if you want to use a Perl script to change your current shell environment you basically have to make a shell script that evals the output of the Perl script, then source the shell script (or run the eval manually).

Something like: 

#!perl
print "setenv FOO bar\n";

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shell script would have... 
eval `perl_script.pl`

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or whatever... is a pain since you still need to output shell commands, and may or may not need to semi-colon separate them...

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Re^2: Changing a unix users environment
by bdimych (Monk) on Oct 26, 2007 at 09:29 UTC
    the same 
    ~/bdimych >cat x.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "eval export \"MYENVVAR=MY ENV VALUE3\";\n";
print ":
: If you see this, then you launch this script in wrong way
: You should launch it only backslashed i.e. `$0`
: See \"Command Substitution\" in man bash
:
";
~/bdimych >echo $MYENVVAR

~/bdimych >./x.pl
eval export "MYENVVAR=MY ENV VALUE3";
:
: If you see this, then you launch this script in wrong way
: You should launch it only backslashed i.e. `./x.pl`
: See "Command Substitution" in man bash
:
~/bdimych >`./x.pl`
~/bdimych >echo $MYENVVAR
MY ENV VALUE3
~/bdimych >

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