You could use the single-quote as your -e delimiter. :-)

You can? I seem to have trouble trying to do that.

C:\>perl -e 'print "foo\n"'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
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In cmd.exe you can escape quotes with either a quote or a backslash, I don't know if either will work in command.com, If some one else doesn't know I'll check after I get home from work both do apear to work in command.com on Windows 98.

C:\>perl -e "print '""'"
"
C:\>perl -e "print '\"'"
"
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