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in reply to Re^5: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org
in thread Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org

# perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
Tip for the technically less experienced people: the quotes are unnecessary on all platforms that I know off, so to avoid portability problems, it may be better to drop them:
perl -MCPAN -e shell