Trina Espinoza wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to set an shell enviroment using perl? I
> have tried using the backticks, the system command, but they
> don't seem to be working. I found ENV{'FLEE'} = 'FLEE'; online,
> but I don't understand how that works. It sets your enviroment
> for a child process but won't change your current environment,
> is that right? If anyone has suggestions I am all ears.
You can change the current environment and you can set a child's
environment before it runs but you can't change your parent's
environment. Modifying %ENV does change the current environment however
backticks and system() run as a separate process and so do not effect
the current environment.
John
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