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[Nicholas Dronen]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:52:54AM -0500, Eric LeBlanc wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Luis Palacios Palomino wrote:
> 
> > more perl_script.pl
> > ...
> > my $ORACLE_HOME = "/some_path/8i";
> > `export $ORACLE_HOME`;
> > ...
> 
> that thing works ??  I alway thinking the export is a built-in command
> from bash / sh, and cannot be called by perl.

There's no way this can work.  He's using backticks, which
calls a subshell.  When the subshell exits, the variable
is lost (putting aside the matter that he's not using the
correct syntax for export).

He should be using:

$ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'} = "/home_path/8i";

Regards,

Nicholas Dronen