> 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? Just so it is clear what I am trying to do, there are some scp and ssh commands like: system ("/usr/bin/scp /tmp/filename server1:/tmp/filename"); we want the scp command to use the running ssh-agent's credentials to log onto the remote server.