I want to print the contents of @INC from the Shell,is it possible?
Yes, easily:

perl -e "print \"@INC\""

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This will work on *nix & Windows. On *nix you don't need to juggle with quotes as much.

Do we always need a .pl file?
No. See the above example

If type 'perl' in the shell, the cursor moves to a new line and receives my input, but the commands I enter there are not executing.I use CONTROL+C to return back to shell.
Use Control-D on Unix variants or Control-Z on Windows

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update: added pointers to FAQs

In reply to Re: printing @INC contents and Command line interpretation by FunkyMonk
in thread printing @INC contents and Command line interpretation by narainhere

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