in reply to 'perl -le' not working on the command line
As the AM has already indicated, the fault lies with the shell, or what Windoze chooses to call it.
The 'shell' ignores, or appears not to recognise, single quotes - try enclosing your CLI command in double quotes ...
As I haven't had a Windoze box for quite a while, I can't actually demonstrate this.perl -Mbignum -le "print 2**255;"
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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