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Re: find the shell inside a perl script

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Jun 22, 2006 at 15:55 UTC ( [id://556927]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to find the shell inside a perl script

`echo \$0` should always return sh. Backticks, system and exec use sh (on platforms with that shell).

You want $ENV{SHELL} on unix OSs and $ENV{COMSPEC} in DOS/Windows.

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