Re^3: passing a variable from shell script to the main perl

How are you calling your shell script? Are you using system?

system("shell.sh");
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Any changes that your shell.sh script makes to the %ENV will not stay after the system command is finished. Instead, simply have your shell.sh script echo some text that your perl script can capture when using backticks.

my $results = `shell.sh`;
if ($results =~ /Hello World/) {
   print "tada!";
}
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shell.sh

echo "Hello world";
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Re^4: passing a variable from shell script to the main perl by vbynagari (Initiate) on Apr 05, 2011 at 22:22 UTC
<text>when I do this </test> $xx=`sh $translationscript $filename $source_dir $file 2>&1`; <text> the value $xx has the log from the shell script and the STDOUT. Also, in the shell, I am checking for some errors and based on the error - I have a variable defined and I want that variable need in perl and then I will have to continue my script based upon the type of error I get from the shell. How do I do this? </text> thx	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: passing a variable from shell script to the main perl
by vbynagari (Initiate) on Apr 05, 2011 at 22:22 UTC

$xx=`sh $translationscript $filename $source_dir $file 2>&1`;

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