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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Horn
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong here?
> command line scripts on winx is a pain. It doesn't handle quoting very
> well. Note here you've got the script enclosing dbl quotes in the script
> itself. Even on *nix you'll have troubles w/ that. On linux you could do
> (note enclosing single quotes):
> $ perl -e 'print("Hello world.\n");'
On windows is as much pain as on unix. On both you can scape them if
necessary:
perl -e "print(\"Hello world.\n\");"
> but on windows, you're better off just writing the script to a file and
> working that way. Or changing your cmd.com to something more flexible ;->
> (seriously, there is a bash etc. for winx).
On Windows you can do the same exact thing woth mo problems at all:
C:\>perl -e 'print("Hello world.\n");'
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