Question

I want to embed a bash script inside a perl script. I want to run my bash script by taking some variables from the perl script. Once it gets the variable the bash script takes over and tries to output the files that is created within.

How can I pass the perl script variable to my bash script ?

I do not know perl but from what I read in Google, I can embed my bash script as

system("get_files.cmd -yr ${year}");

where my bash script is get_files.cmd.

Answer 1

I think it might be better if you passed them as arguments to your bash script.

The perl call:

system("get_files.cmd ${var1} ${var2}");

The bash script

var1="$1"
var2="$2"
...

Where $1, $2 are the arguments passed in the command line (in order). Note that you can use the $# bash variable to get the number of arguments passed.

Hope this helps =)