If the variables are exported when you call Perl, they will be available inside Perl. And, when you call "system", they will be available for those processes as well. Are you having any specific problems doing this? If you can't make it work, please send more details on what exactly is not working as supposed to.
The variables are not exported when I call Perl. This is what I am trying to do. How do I get those variables to be available to the bash "system" commands within the script?