Re: 'perl -le' not working on the command line

by Bloodnok (Vicar)

on May 26, 2011 at 10:48 UTC ( #906803=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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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 ...

perl -Mbignum -le "print 2**255;"
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As I haven't had a Windoze box for quite a while, I can't actually demonstrate this.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: 'perl -le' not working on the command line by ikegami (Pope) on May 26, 2011 at 16:07 UTC
If I passed C source code to `perl`, the resulting error is not Perl's fault. Similarly, the error that results from presenting cmd with a bash command is not the shell's fault.	[reply] [d/l]

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