in reply to [OT] 'perl' is not the 'perl' reported by 'which perl'

Did you check if there are any aliases in bash?

What happens if you try to call Perl from Perl via qx?

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Re^2: [OT] 'perl' is not the 'perl' reported by 'which perl'
by perlfan (Parson) on Aug 21, 2020 at 15:46 UTC
    alias is a good thing to check (alias -p). Similarly, a bash function perl defined in your environment could cause a similar effect and are not reported by alias -p. If that's not expected and it exists, then something fish is happening for sure. I don't know off the top of my head how to see what bash functions are currently defined. I believe which is aware of aliases, not sure about bash functions. Does which which what you expect? Maybe try it with the absolute path.
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