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Old 12-05-2010
perl inside shell script?
Hi UNIX Pros!

Newbie here, I would like to ask if it is possible to use perl commands inside a shell script? i created a simple script which connects to oracle and run queries which the script saves to a separate .txt file for each query issued. What i want to do is to create a presentable and well formatted excel file containing all the queries saved in the txt files. I saw from a post here in unix.com which points a link where it is possible to format excel via perl.

Thanks for reading! please do help me. cheers! Smilie
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Old 12-05-2010
why not try the perl command inside a shell script directly?
# 3  
Old 12-05-2010
yeah i'm trying, but it wont work. is there any startup code or whatsoever that i should do before i can start running perl commands? i specifically want to try Excel::Writer::XLSX for my script. Please help me!
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Old 12-05-2010
if you don't put your script, error message, how can we guess?
# 5  
Old 12-06-2010
Data
im trying to issue this command - use Excel::Writer::XLSX; an error message appears saying: "ksh: use: not found"

sorry for the noob questions
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Old 12-06-2010
You can use Perl inside a shell script, you just can't mangle it together as you please. This is an example of how to do it.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

echo "This is the shell script"

perl << 'EOF'
use strict;
use warnings;

my $var = "This is the Perl script\n";
print $var;
EOF

echo "This is the shell script again"

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Old 12-06-2010
so using "EOF" will do the trick?
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