cmd.exe quoting rules are almost simple. There is only one kind of quote, the double quote. So

perl -ne "print if /start/ .. /end/" *.html
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perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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Aw! I get...

C:\temp\>perl -n -e "print if /start/ .. /end/" *.html
Can't open *.html: Invalid argument.

When run under CMD.exe -- I'm not sure if it's perl.exe or CMD.exe complaining here. :(
Msemtd.

Many Thanks to all who replied -- my solution to the CMD.exe problem was resolved with a WinNT batch file(!) to deal with the "*.html" argument...

@echo off
:: aarunme.bat -- on an NT machine with ActiveState Perl, this fella
:: will tidy up a mirror of the Slackware Book by exploding the inner 
+table
for %%f in (*.html) do call :func1 %%f
goto :EOF
:func1
echo %1
perl -ni.bak -e "print if /Norman/ .. /\/BODY$/" %1
:: this line replaces the missing ">" for the closing body tag
echo ^> >> %1
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BTW: I really should have the 2nd regex on the closing HTML tag.

If you can install cygwin, use that. It will give you a "sane" shell to run perl scripts with.
--
Mike