It's not really OS dependent so much as shell dependent. Windows' "command.exe" or "cmd.exe" uses double-quotes as string delimiters, whereas most other shells use double-quotes as an interpolating delimiter and single-quotes as non-interpolating. On those shells, you'd almost always want to use single-quotes with a Perl one-liner so something like $var isn't interpreted by the shell itself, as it would be in double-quotes. With Windows, you have to use double-quotes because that's all it recognizes, so you'd need to switch any quote marks inside those to single quotes. Or just use bash with Cygwin.

kelan

Perl6 Grammar Student

In reply to Re: Re^4: perl 1-liner to join a list? by kelan
in thread perl 1-liner to join a list? by bfdi533

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