Re: one liner error

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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The trick is that the command(s) must not contain whitespace. Time and effort spent golfing is never wasted!

Give a man a fish: <%-{-{-{-<

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Re^2: one liner error by Fletch (Bishop) on May 27, 2020 at 13:55 UTC
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` [download] (Insert Jurasic Park quote about could versus should) The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: one liner error by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 27, 2020 at 15:22 UTC
Simpler? Simpler? I don' need no stinkin' simpler! I've got Windose! Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: one liner error by Fletch (Bishop) on May 27, 2020 at 15:55 UTC
Obligatory . . . The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re^4: one liner error by Anonymous Monk on May 27, 2020 at 17:49 UTC
🤮 poor thing ...	[reply]
Re^3: one liner error by perlfan (Parson) on May 28, 2020 at 07:05 UTC
>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.	[reply]
Re^2: one liner error by toohoo (Beadle) on May 28, 2020 at 05:45 UTC
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.	[reply]