From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T23:43:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Sigh! I'm depressed. Debian vs Ruby and the backtick and subshells


On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:48 PM, John Carter wrote:

>
> Thus on Debian (and Debian derivatives like Ubuntu) Rubies backtick
> (iff there is a glob or a redirection present) is HARDCODED to /bin/sh
> but will (depending on the users whim) give you dash or bash.


i could easily be wrong, but i have a dim recollection that the  
location of sh is a POSIX standard itself.

backticks seem to respect the SHELL var here

   cfp:~ > SHELL=tcsh ruby -e' puts `echo $SHELL 2>out` '
   tcsh


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