diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
index 759110740..801581446 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ sub subvars {
                     $partcontent .= "rm -rf /tmp/partitionfile\n";
 
                     # Put the code to decode the partitionfile
-                    $partcontent .= "python -c 'import base64; print base64.b64decode(open(\"/tmp/partscript.enc\",\"rb\").read())' >/tmp/partscript\n";
+                    $partcontent .= "base64decode</tmp/partscript.enc >/tmp/partscript\n";
                     $partcontent .= "chmod 755 /tmp/partscript\n";
                     $partcontent .= "/tmp/partscript\n";
 
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ sub subvars {
                     $partcontent .= "rm -rf /tmp/partitionfile\n";
 
                     # Put the code to decode the partitionfile
-                    $partcontent .= "python -c 'import base64; print base64.b64decode(open(\"/tmp/partitionfile.enc\",\"rb\").read())' >/tmp/partitionfile\n";
+                    $partcontent .= "base64decode</tmp/partitionfile.enc >/tmp/partitionfile\n";
 
                     #replace the #XCA_PARTITION_SCRIPT#
                     $inc =~ s/#XCA_PARTITION_SCRIPT#/$partcontent/;