Evaluate the content of a variable

[Bruni007]

Hi,

At the beginning of my perl script, i've written the following line to use Tivoli commands under unix and it works fine...
use Shell qw(wcrtadmin wassignop wpostzmsg wsndnotif wdel);

I've create a variable..
$command = "wcrtadmin -r user"

The problem is that I don't know how to evaluate the content of $command
With bash, I would have done:
eval $command

I don't know how to do the same with Perl....!

 

[ishnid]

The Shell module is not recommended for use in "real" systems. If you want to run external commands, use backticks (the return value is the output of the command you've run), i.e.:

my $command_output = `wcrtadmin -r user`;

 

[Bruni007]

ok thx

I'm pretty new with Perl, I didn't know the backticks were acting that way...

Can you also tell me how I would source the following script with Perl instead of Bash

In a Bash script I would have done it this way:
. /var/setup.bash

I've tried to put it between backticks,but it doesn't work

I need the value of an environment variable from the above script...I thought it would have possible to add it to
%ENV