Hello WithABeard and welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of Perl!,

interesting finding, I tried it and.. more doubts coming out

PS C:\Users\me> Get-Host | Select-Object Version

Version
-------
5.1.19041.1682


PS C:\Users\me> C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.24.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe -e 
+"print $^O;"
PS C:\Users\me>                                                       
+              # no output as you noticed

PS C:\Users\me> C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.24.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe -e 
+'print $^O;'
MSWin32                                                               
+              # ok with single quotes.. meh

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But what happens if I cast portableshell.bat coming within my portable strawberry perl?

PS C:\Users\me> C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.24.64bit\portableshell.bat
----------------------------------------------
 Welcome to Strawberry Perl Portable Edition!
 * URL - http://www.strawberryperl.com/
 * see README.TXT for more info
----------------------------------------------
Perl executable: C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.24.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe
Perl version   : 5.24.2 / MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

C:\Users\me>perl -e "print $^O;"
MSWin32                                                              #
+ good 'ol expected behaviour
C:\Users\me>
C:\Users\me>
C:\Users\me>perl -e 'print $^O;'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.   #
+ no more single quote allowed

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In reply to Re: $^O empty in windows powershell -- portableshell.bat ? by Discipulus
in thread $^O empty in windows powershell by WithABeard

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