Hi

I did start a new instance of command line still the problem persisted. After that, I rebooted and tried again, but the problem was still there. As stated earlier, I dropped to PowerShell and it worked. But the moment I get out of PowerShell, it stops working.

C:\Users\pmu>perl
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\pmu>powershell
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS C:\Users\pmu> perl --version

This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 1 (v5.24.1) built for MSWin32-x
+86-multi-thread-64int

Copyright 1987-2017, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

PS C:\Users\pmu> exit

C:\Users\pmu>perl
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\pmu>

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This is something that I truly do not understand. Things are pretty straightforward in linux. I just have to edit the $PATH variable and things generally work consistently.

In reply to Re: Strange problem with Windows 7 command line and perl by anonypl
in thread Strange problem with Windows 7 command line and perl by anonypl

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