09-30-2011
.profile is a shell script, shell scripts don't run in perl.
Creating a shell inside perl to run .profile in is pointless, environment variables don't work that way. The script and anything the script runs would get the vars, but perl wouldn't. Children get copies of your environment, parents don't get environment variables from children.
You should source .profile in a shell, and have that shell run the perl script. The perl script will inherit the vars from it.
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NAME
shunit2 - A unit test framework for shell scripts
SYNOPSIS
shunit2 unitfile
DESCRIPTION
shUnit2 is a xUnit unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts, and it is designed to work in a similar manner to JUnit, PyUnit,
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EXAMPLE
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Execute shUnit2 unit tests directly from the commandline
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OPTIONS
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SEE ALSO
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