Hello toohoo,

For one-liners, you have to quote the script; on Windows, that means double quotes (single quotes on *nix):

perl -e "use Cwd; print getcwd();"
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Note that you can also specify a module via the -M flag:

perl -MCwd -e "print getcwd();"
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See perlrun.

Hope that helps,

Hello Athanasius

Thank you very much, this solved my issue.

Have a nice day

Further to Athanasius's reply:   If you don't like using quotes on your command line (and who does?), you can, in certain limited cases, avoid them:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MCwd -le my$str=getcwd;print(qq{it
+\x20is\x20now\x20$str})
it is now c:/@Work/Perl/monks
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Just to expand for *NIX shells, you need to avoid whitespace and other characters the shell is going to interpret specially: e.g. parens, curlies, braces, splats, dolar signs, ampersands, semicolons, and backslashes (and that's in no ways an exhaustive list). Usually you can backslash them to escape them, but you're going to wind up with leaning toothpick syndrome. It'll be much simpler (to say nothing of fewer characters) if you just break down and (single) quote things and be done with it.

$ uptime | perl -nE m\{\(load\ averages:.\*\)\}\&\&say\$1
load averages: 1.12 1.02 0.95
$ uptime | perl -nE 'm{(load averages:.*)}&&say$1'
load averages: 0.84 0.96 0.93
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(Insert Jurasic Park quote about could versus should)

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

Simpler? Simpler? I don' need no stinkin' simpler! I've got Windose!

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Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

>Jurasic Park

It's a UNIX system. You know this. xD

Also the source of the "hold your butts" meme for when you're deploying something tricky or not well tested...talk about bout an effect on nerd culture.

Hi AnomalousMonk,

ARGH! The Windows space problem. You are right. Sometimes I have known things already that sometimes I forget :-/

Many thanks to you, you are great.