Env::Sourced Env::Sourced is a Perl module that allows you to import environment variables from a shell program.
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Env::Sourced is a Perl module that allows you to import environment variables from a shell program. Env::Sourced is a Perl module that allows you to import environment variables from a shell program.SYNOPSIS use Env::Sourced qw(/first/file/to/include.sh /second/file/to/include.sh);In the UNIX shell, when you source a file the shell reads and executes the commands from a specified file in the current shell environment. This is opposed to simply executing the specified file, which would cause it to run in its own shell environment. Because the executed script runs in the current environment, any environment variables exported by the sub-script will be included in the calling scripts environment.On many boxes there are legacy shell scripts which serve as central points for holding variables that are used in other scripts. These variable scripts are sourced in all of the worker scripts so that they can share a common environment.This works fine for shell scripts, but can be problematic for Perl scripts. To pick up the shared environment, they typically must be wrapped by a shell script that does the sourcing for the Perl script: #/bin/ksh . /file/to/include.sh $@Or the Perl interpreter must be aliased to include the environment: alias perl='. /file/to/include.sh;perl'Or any one of many other hacks must be performed to get the correct environment for your Perl scripts. And, in the end you have a script that cannot run without having variables that are defined in another script, but you have no clear note of what script needs to be included.This is why Env::Sourced came about. It allows for you to specify in your script what files are needed to set up the environment needed by your script to run. It then takes these files and merges the environment defined by them into your current environment. This allows your script to access the sourced environment through the %ENV hash or directly through scalars and arrays if you use Env.To use the module, you simply include it in your code and tell it which scripts to merge into your environment. The scripts will be processed in the order in which they are passed to the module, so if they both set the same variable, only the last setting will be kept. use Env::Sourced qw(/first/file/to/include.sh /second/file/to/include.sh);It is expected that the scripts that are being called will execute cleanly. They can output to standard out and standard error (all output will be passed through standard error anyway), but they must exit without errors. If they do have errors, chance are you will get a message like "Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference..." and your script will terminate. Requirements: · Perl

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