Hmm, let's see how the searching goes

no site:perlmonks.org Can't find string terminator "'" at -e line 1

site:perlmonks.org Can't find string terminator "'" at -e line 1 ... 5th page? Can't find string teminator

Ick, the search engines are useless :(

title search yields no results Can't find string terminator "'" (hello title )

Its a good thing Super Search is still super.

?node_id=3989;BIT=Can%27t%20find%20string%20terminator%20%22%27%22
bingo 'perl -le' not working on the command line
bingo XP fails, HP-UX OK
bingo Re: Running perl from java
almost Perl Rename
bingo how to run commandline perl on windows
Re^2: \q quote-matching operator

perlrun explains about using double quotes for cmd.exe, a more comprehensive tutorial is at Behind the GUI lives the Shell

See also diagnostics, B::Deparse ( perl -MO=Deparse,-p ... )

In reply to Re: command line error ( Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. ) by Anonymous Monk
in thread command line error by hsfrey

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