Urgent!! Inserting UNIX enviroment variables in a Perl script

[Dudek]

Hi there...

I currently have a perl script. I was wondering whether it was possible for me to include into the script the environment variables in my unix .profile file into the Perl script. The reason for this is, i need the cron job to run the script automatically every day. But when the cron runs it, it will spill out error messages that are because of different path settings and environment settings. So what i need is a way such that when the cron runs the script, it will also run it using my logins .profile or environment settings.

Can anybody help me here? Quite urgent..

TIA

JD

 

[johnv20]

Hi,
I'm not sure if this will work for UNIX but for DOS & windows envs perl creates a datahash called %ENV. So to use the localdrive set by the env just use

$localdrive = $ENV{LOCALDRIVE}

hope this helps,
JV

 

[toolkit]

Three suggestions:
1) Manually source the profile from cron

0,30 * * * *  . /path/to/.profile; myscript

2) Will not work for csh .profile

require "dotsh.pl";
&dotsh( "/path/to/.profile" );

3) Supply defaults when %ENV not valid

$value = $ENV{'value'} || "xyz";

Cheers, Neil