using print<<`EOC`

[pgodfrin]

Greetings,
How does Perl identify which shell to use (sh, vs ksh vs csh, etc)
for backticks in a here document?
pg

 

[Tim Greer]

Greetings,
How does Perl identify which shell to use (sh, vs ksh vs csh, etc)
for backticks in a here document?
pg

What environment settings is it running in?

 

[Jürgen Exner]

How does Perl identify which shell to use (sh, vs ksh vs csh, etc)
for backticks in a here document?

From 'perldoc perlop', section 'Quote and quote-like operators',
subsection 'qx':

qx/STRING/
`STRING`
A string which is (possibly) interpolated and then executed
as a
system command with "/bin/sh" or its equivalent. [...]

jue

 

[pgodfrin]

What environment settings is it running in?
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The default shell for my userid is ksh - but the backticks in the here
document invoke sh ..
pg