On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 06:44:18PM -0400, ESChamp wrote: > Paul Johnson has written on 7/13/2014 5:00 PM: > > perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < original_file.txt > just_email.txt > > e:\Docs\>perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < 4sam.txt > just_email.txt > Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
Ah, you're on Windows. I think you need to use " quotes: >perl -nale "print $F[-1]" < 4sam.txt > just_email.txt but if I'm wrong, someone who knows more about Windows should be able to say. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/