I have a Perl script which has a variable like my $name
. Can we set the contents of $name as an environment variable which we can import and use in other files?
I tried like $ENV{NAME}=name
, but this is not working.
I have a Perl script which has a variable like my $name
. Can we set the contents of $name as an environment variable which we can import and use in other files?
I tried like $ENV{NAME}=name
, but this is not working.
If you want to affect the environment of your process or your child processes, just use the %ENV
hash:
$ENV{CVSROOT}='<cvs>';
If you want to affect the environment of your parent process, you can't. At least not without cooperation of the parent process. The standard process is to emit a shell script and have the parent process execute that shell script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print 'export CVSROOT=<cvs>';
... and call that script from the shell (script) as:
eval `myscript.pl`