Is this expected behaviour?

In the pl2bat docs which you even link to it is documented 

This is due to a Win32 bug which Perl has no control over.  This bug i
+s the major motivation for B<pl2bat> [which was originally written fo
+r DOS] being used on Win32 systems.

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So it is documented behaviour. As for expected I would have to say yes. If you expect that Win32 will let you down in various ways you are unlikely to be disappointed ;-) Windows shell functionality is perhaps best described as a somewhat neglected development area. You could also get into rant mode and question why M$ had to 'fix' stuff that was not broken and leave stuff broken that needs fixing.

The bottom line is that when you go to the shell, any shell, stuff that works in one shell will not work on another shell. That is after all why they are different shells ;-) It would work using Cygwin with a shebang.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: pipe to script requires '| perl' on win32 by tachyon
in thread pipe to script requires '| perl' on win32 by QM

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