Hi Readers,

  I am posting this for a friend of mine(and I am myself curious).

  The SOURCE command doesn't seem to work in Perl i.e
  --------------------------
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  system("source .cshrc")
  --------------------------

  doesn't source the .cshrc file(just an example).
  Even the following doesn't work

  ---------------------------
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  system("sh source .cshrc")

  ---------------------------
  NOTR: The above scripts are supposedly executables.
  Does anyone know what could be wrong or what the correct way is?.
  Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Raghu.

: Hi Readers,

:   I am posting this for a friend of mine(and I am myself curious).

:   The SOURCE command doesn't seem to work in Perl i.e
:   --------------------------
:   #!/usr/bin/perl
:   system("source .cshrc")
:   --------------------------

"source" is a csh keyword. I imagine that system invokes /bin/sh which does not
support "source". I suppect you will need to do something like this piece of
untested, off-the-top-of-my-head code

system("/bin/csh")
which should then automatically source the ~/.cshrc.
Note, that since system invokes a child shell, which in turn invokes csh, it is the
csh shell that gets the new environment settings. These environment variables will
not be inherited back to the invocation program (ie. perl).

Andrew