More detail is needed.
Here are two examples:
Example 1
#!/usr/bin/perl
$ENV{foo}='bar';
system "/path/to/script.sh";
#!/bin/sh
echo $foo
Example 2
#!/usr/bin/perl
system "/path/to/script.sh bar"
#!/bin/sh
echo "$1"
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How can we call perl variables in a shell script? Can somebody give an example?
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by "call" do you mean
name, or say, or invoke, or command, or signal, or predict, or summon, or designate, or need, or postpone, announce, or ... ?
which perl variables do you want to call? in what perl program?
is the shell process a parent of the perl process?
is the perl process a parent of the shell process?
Do they run on the same machine?
Do they run at the same time?
Are you writing a perl script that needs to work with an existing shell script?
are you writing a shell script that needs to work with an existing perl scipt?
what would these shell and perl scripts do?
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by: Adam314Posted on 2009-04-21 at 09:47:22ID: 24196420
Do you mean access them? Directly, you can't.
You can have perl access the shell's environment variables, through the %ENV variable.
You could have perl output the value of it's variables, and the shell could read those. What are you trying to do?