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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

On May 15, 12:05 pm, heylow <vnr1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/She...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';

--
The best way to get a good answer is to ask a good question.
David Filmer (http://DavidFilmer.com)

On May 15, 3:16 pm, use...@DavidFilmer.com wrote:
> On May 15, 12:05 pm, heylow <vnr1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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/She.../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';
>
> --
> The best way to get a good answer is to ask a good question.
> David Filmer (http://DavidFilmer.com)


Thank you.