[clue] source'ing

[Chris Fedde]

My way of doing this kind of thing is to check if the environment then
set and exec if it is wrong:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use Modern::Perl;

if (not $ENV{CHECKME}) {
    say "setting CHECKME";
    $ENV{CHECKME} = time;
    exec $0
}

say $ENV{CHECKME};



On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> Can a perl script "source" a bash script, such that exported variables in
> the bash script are visible in the perl script that called it, or do I
> absolutely have to use some sort of "message in a bottle"?
>
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