I think eyepops will soon come up with an older discussion about the Perl trying to cleverly fix CMD idiosyncrasies

LanX, I'm also out of my depth here, and have no desire to become an expert in fixing CMD idiosyncrasies ... generally, I try to avoid the shell as much as possible and do everything in Perl. :) I think you may be waiting for ikegami, who seems to be our Windows shell master.

For some light relief, I did find a couple of links though:

• Re: Some Help for a Report About Perl (One-liner References)
• Re^3: [OT] 'perl' is not the 'perl' reported by 'which perl' (which vs type References)

• Re: perl one liner for csv file one field (useless use of cat and other awards References)
• The wise coder (excellent poem by hippo)

> > I think eyepops will soon come up with an older discussion about the Perl trying to cleverly fix CMD idiosyncrasies

> and have no desire to become an expert in fixing CMD

sorry, I meant you will list some older threads on the topic (which you did, thanks++ :) not you personally trying to fix (what is unfixable).

> generally, I try to avoid the shell as much as possible and do everything in Perl. :

best compromise would be a consistent Perl shell running on all platforms! :)

> I think you may be waiting for ikegami, who seems to be our Windows shell master.

Well, yeah. He might know if and how PS differs.

Cheers Rolf
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