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Use the appropriate quotes for your shell. Switch double quotes for single quotes.

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Re^4: Diff'ing dates
by LighthouseJ (Sexton) on Oct 02, 2007 at 15:23 UTC
    I figured you had written the one-liner with single quotes anyway. The small monospace text perlmonks use looked like single quotes because I knew I didn't want to interpolate any variables.
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