Re^2: MySQL/MariaDB DBD install problem

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Re^3: MySQL/MariaDB DBD install problem by etj (Priest) on Sep 25, 2024 at 14:50 UTC
This is an example where I think a better idiom for telling people to run commands isn't to give them a shell-prompt starting point, but a Perl one, so here: `$ perl -wE 'for my $d (@INC) { -s "$d/DBD/mysql.pm" and say "$d/DBD/my +sql.pm" }'` [download] would become: `C:\strawberry>perl -de 0 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.57 Editor support available. Enter h or 'h h' for help, or 'perldoc perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 [errors from Term::ReadKey to be ignored] DB<1> for my $d (@INC) { -s "$d/DBD/mysql.pm" and say "$d/DBD/mysql. +pm" } C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/DBD/mysql.pm` [download] That would then be immune to the vagaries of Windows command lines.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: MySQL/MariaDB DBD install problem by NERDVANA (Priest) on Sep 24, 2024 at 20:21 UTC
Yeah unfortunately the Windows command line doesn't treat `'` as quote characters, so the whole thing would need to be inside double-quotes, and the perl strings within would need to be a different quoting syntax like `qq{...}`. The Windows command line is much less useful for one-liners than Bash. This is yet another good argument for Cygwin, since cygwin provides a fully unix-compatible terminal window. If you already have code written for Strawberry, though, switching to cygwin perl means you have to check all your usage paths to make sure they are forward-slashes.	[reply] [d/l] [select]