Re: Uncommon but Useful Perl Command Line Options

[Not_a_Number]

Sol-Invictus++!

However, as this is posted as a tutorial (and should consequently attract a lot of not-so-experienced PMs), and since perl is cross-platform, I suggest you either:

1) Add "(for *nix users only)" to your title;

2) Include a preamble about different quoting systems for one-liners on different OSs; or:

3) Point non_*nix users to perlfaq3 "Why don't perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?"

dave

[Sol-Invictus]

fair points - note however I wrote and tested this on a Mac :).

[Not_a_Number]

Okay. But your examples don't work on Windoze.

Basic advice to Win users:

Change " to ' # Double quotes to single quotes

dave

Update - Ooops: Of course, I wrote exactly the opposite of what I meant:

Change ' to " # Single quotes to double quotes

dave

[Sol-Invictus]

Tis done - I clarified things a tad though I did this before reading your posting, thanks for the ehads up :)