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Hi, You are so veeery close, only that I get: Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: One-liner ascii/bin
by mkmcconn (Chaplain) on Nov 24, 2001 at 01:19 UTC

    Hi, You are so veeery close, only that I get: Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. : Rolf

    It appears you are using CMD or COMMAND in Windows for your command-line interpretor, which doesn't know what to do with the quotes. Change I0's one-liner to this:

    perl -e "print unpack qq(B*),shift" Rolf

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    ... and it will work.

    mkmcconn
    (or use cygwin, instead)

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      Thank you so much!! It works really nice, and a big thanks to everybody for helping me with this. Regards Rolf
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