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> it seems that `pwd` inside Perl doesn't default like pwd in bash

Note that qx// doesn't call bash but sh, which might be a different shell (/bin/dash on Ubuntu, for example).

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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Re^7: Getting the absolute path of a script, without PWD (bug?)(update)
by perlancar (Hermit) on Jul 16, 2021 at 10:20 UTC
    Noted, but that's not the cause of the difference here. `pwd` under dash still calls the shell builtin, which defaults to pwd -L.
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