You have given us no information about what is in the ./home/apps/profile and how you are calling, but I presume that it contains bash variable assignments (export FOO='bar') and you are using system() or exec() to call it.

These get run in a separate process which runs and exits and does not affect your currently running process.

But it seems silly to use bash to set environment variables from a perl script, when you can do $ENV{FOO} = 'bar'.

You can just open the file, read it in line by line and assign the values to keys of %ENV.

Also, why are you using environment variables? I could understand it maybe if you were possibly calling a non-perl program from your script, but if this is all in perl, why not load your config variables using YAML or YAML::Syck?

use YAML();
our %Config = YAML::LoadFile('./home/app/profile');

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and in ./home/app/profile: 
---
foo:    bar
arrayref:
   - 1
   - 2
   - 3
hashref:
   foo:   bar
   baz:   bar

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Clint

In reply to Re: using .profile in perl by clinton
in thread using .profile in perl by Anonymous Monk

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