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Re^3: execute shell script from perl

by afoken (Chancellor)
on Sep 29, 2017 at 20:07 UTC ( [id://1200396]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: execute shell script from perl
in thread execute shell script from perl

On some OSes /bin/sh is still the Bourne shell.

And that's not all. /bin/sh varies wildly with OS and OS version, so it should be avoided where possible. If one has to resort to using a shell (why on earth?), one should explicitly use that shell (e.g. use /bin/bash, /bin/ksh or the like) instead of hoping for the default shell.

Alexander

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