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in reply to Re: Exporting variables from perl script to shell
in thread Exporting variables from perl script to shell

I would code it like this: 
do { 
  local $ENV{FOO} = 'bar';
  system($command);
};

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This gives you the temporary-env-value semantics of "FOO='bar' $command", yet doesn't assume that the user's shell has said semantics (Win32's cmd.exe certainly doesn't, for example).
--Stevie-O 
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