Re^2: backticks problem

Ok, so i tried

use strict;

$ENV{SHELL} = '/bin/bash';
my $i = `which prog`;
print "$i\n";
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and I still get the error message from sourcing .cshrc

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Re^3: backticks problem by bigmacbear (Monk) on Aug 06, 2004 at 20:24 UTC
Solaris will always check your `.cshrc` file when running `which`, regardless of your shell. I'm not sure of any way around this other than fixing your `.cshrc` file. The suggestion to use File::Which is a good one. Relying on a backtick command invariably introduces portability problems, which require a lot of defensive coding to work around (hence the astounding complexity of GNU `configure` and the like.)	[reply]

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Re^3: backticks problem
by bigmacbear (Monk) on Aug 06, 2004 at 20:24 UTC

Solaris will always check your .cshrc file when running which, regardless of your shell. I'm not sure of any way around this other than fixing your .cshrc file.

The suggestion to use File::Which is a good one. Relying on a backtick command invariably introduces portability problems, which require a lot of defensive coding to work around (hence the astounding complexity of GNU configure and the like.)

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