perl backticks: use bash instead of sh

Question

I noticed that when I use backticks in perl the commands are executed using sh, not bash, giving me some problems.

How can I change that behavior so perl will use ba

Answer 1

I thought perl would honor the $SHELL variable, but then it occurred to me that its behavior might actually depend on your system's exec implementation. In mine, it seems that exec

will execute the shell (/bin/sh) with the path of the file as its first argument.

You can always do qw/bash your-command/, no?