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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Accessing shell variables in perl.
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Date: 20 Apr 91 01:15:56 GMT
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   From: rmallett@ccs.carleton.ca (Rick Mallett)

   For this I need to be able
   to examine a shell variable created in a csh parent script,
   and I would also like to be able to create a csh variable
   from within the perl script, although the latter might be 
   asking too much since I don't even know how to do it from
   within a csh script.

You can't.  You can't do it with a csh script, either, unless you
'source' it rather than running it.  This is because shell variables
are private to the shell process running the script, and the
sub-script (which is run in a sub-process) can't get at them.

Dale

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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