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If you install git (standard download from git-scm.com), you get "git-bash" (an MSYS based GNU bash), and a perl is included (which could be seen as a "system perl"). Calling the portableshell.bat of a portable Strawberry from git-bash seems to work in principle (perl -v gives the Strawberry's version instead of git-bash's), but seems to mess with keyboard settings (arrow-up and down move the cursor/send control characters instead of browsing through the CLI history). I assume one could convert the BAT file into a shell script, which would mitigate this.

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Re^4: Perl on Windows 10
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jun 25, 2019 at 00:26 UTC

    I seem to recall using git-bash (or something with a very similar name) on a company MSWin machine a year or two ago.

    As I use 'set -o vi', I don't have a problem with arrow keys. I do, however, remember some minor annoyance such as this — not sure what it was though.

    I'll keep this in mind as another possible option. Thanks.

    — Ken

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