running dot files

[heylow]

Gurus,

I have a dot file that contains the following.


$pwd
/home/oracle
$cat .edp
export ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db
export SID=EDP

I have one line perl script.

$cat 1.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
.. ~/.edp

$./1.pl

syntax error at ./1.pl line 2, near "."
Execution of ./1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.


How to get rid of this error?

Thanks

 

[usenet]

export ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db
export SID=EDP

This is a shell environment configuration file. Perl doesn't grok
such a file. There are several possibilities to configure your
environment in Perl, including these:

You could source the file and then run the Perl program (all from a
bash script); the Perl program will inherit the shell's environment.
It's kinda ugly, but I do this with cron jobs - the cron invokes a
ksh, which sources the env and runs the Perl program.

Or you can import the settings using a module such as
Shell::EnvImporter (I've never tried this, but it looks like it ought
to do the trick):
http://search.cpan.org/~dfaraldo/Shell-EnvImporter-1.04/lib/Shell/EnvImporter.pm

Or you can configure the environment directly in the Perl program:
$ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'} = '/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db';
$ENV{SID} = 'EDP';

 

[heylow]

This is a shell environment configuration file. Perl doesn't grok
such a file. There are several possibilities to configure your
environment in Perl, including these:

You could source the file and then run the Perl program (all from a
bash script); the Perl program will inherit the shell's environment.
It's kinda ugly, but I do this with cron jobs - the cron invokes a
ksh, which sources the env and runs the Perl program.

Or you can import the settings using a module such as
Shell::EnvImporter (I've never tried this, but it looks like it ought
to do the trick):
http://search.cpan.org/~dfaraldo/Shell-EnvImporter-1.04/lib/Shell/Env...

Or you can configure the environment directly in the Perl program:
$ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'} = '/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db';
$ENV{SID} = 'EDP';

Thank you.