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in thread Read UNIX environment variable

An obvious improvement is to notice that \s contains \n. And also that 'use Env' is completely useless in this case.

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Re^3: Read UNIX environment variable
by fisher (Priest) on Feb 09, 2011 at 13:25 UTC
    Well, thank you, captain.
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Re^3: Read UNIX environment variable
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:01 UTC
    Thanks, will I be able to access env variables if my perl code gets run from cron?
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      Yes and no.

      You can read an environment, but as cron jobs run their own environment, you need to load the environment you want. See Get default login environment.

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        Thanks for the heads up. I'm a bit confused though. In he example you link to do I need to change the rest of my script or does $ENV get overwritten by the function? Do I just call %ENV = (%ENV, get_login_env()); and continue as I did before With my $varname = $ENV{'ENV_VAR_NAME'};? Thanks
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      You can access environment variables in a script run as a cron job but take note that cron jobs often have only a sub-set of the environment available to a user shell. For instance, you will likely have a minimal $PATH under cron. It might be worth writing a small script to dump the environment to a file then run it as a cron job to see what's available.

      I hope this is helpful.

      Cheers,

      JohnGG

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