The kind of "quotes" that are needed for various shells vary.

I personally stay away from this "perl -e" syntax for a couple of reasons:
1)if the program that the -e does is "significant", I want to give it a name, make it a "real Perl" file and put it my personal library and maybe even alias it in my shell.
2) The resulting program file is executable on multi-platforms (I work on Linux and MS Windows).

So maybe my question sounds dumb, but why do you want to do that? I haven't found a good reason yet.

I am sure that we will hear how to make it work, and I also would find it interesting. In general this shell syntax problem also boggles my mind and is platform specific. I just avoid it by making a Perl executable file.

You are correct in that perl -e "print \"Hello World\"" works from the Windows command line. But a file with: print "Hello World"; works also and is a lot more clear.

In reply to Re: Running perl from java by Marshall
in thread Running perl from java by abramia

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