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in thread Listing URLs to stdout

You perhaps missed the handicap of playing on greens designed in Redmond WA? The above sadly produces an error message: "'.*' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

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Re^4: Listing URLs to stdout
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jan 13, 2005 at 15:44 UTC

    You have to use the double quotes around the script on windows.

    /J\

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      And if you do then you get: 
      C:>perl -pe"s/^URL=|.*//s" *.url
Can't open *.url: Invalid argument.

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      More to the point the real error is in assuming that the command line processor in windows will expand wild cards, it of course won't---that trick is a unix thing, useful, but unix...

      --hsm

      "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."
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        You have to prefix oneliners with BEGIN{@ARGV=map glob,@ARGV} on Windows. I thought it didn't need pointing out that the Windows commandline and shell design is braindead.

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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