Thanks Thinker, I guess I didn't really ask the right question.

What I really want is to have the same nice quoting behaviors in my one liners that I am used to in perl. Dos is weird with quotes. I was wondering if there is some kind of workaround.

I would like to be able to do 

perl -e "$helloWorld = '"hello world"'; print "$helloWorld"";

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and have it "just work" (ie, print hello world with double quotes around it) without being in escape-with-backslash hell, ie, 
perl -e "$helloWorld = '\"hello world\"'; print "$helloWorld"";

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as, with gellyfish's help, I now know to do.

I guess maybe this really isn't *that* "hellish" but it isn't anywhere near as heavenly as perl outside of the dos shell. So, if there is some other trick...

In reply to Re^2: How do I print a quote with a perl one liner on dos? by tphyahoo
in thread How do I print a quote with a perl one liner on dos? by tphyahoo

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