Re: setting several environment variables in the current shell process

Gaurav Arora wrote:
> In csh based scripts, I can use the 'source' keyword, or in 'sh' based 
> scripts, I can use the '.' symbol. But what would be the equivalent in 
> Perl ?

To simplify things, you can use the shell's "eval" command.  Then you 
won't need to save the variables in a file.

For example:

...................
$ cat env-var
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "export FOO='my value'\n";

$ ./env-var
export FOO='my value'

$ eval `./env-var`

$ echo $FOO
my value
...................

Note that this assumes that you're not using a shell that uses csh 
syntax - to be portable, you'd need to have the Perl script accept an 
option to specify which of the two common syntaxes to use for setting 
variables.
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Danny R. Faught
Tejas Software Consulting
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