Re^2: % o $ is not recognized as an internal or external command

In most of my Perl books, the author will preface a command with a prompt like $, #, or %. When you're new to Perl, it can be confusing. What the author meant was

perl -MLWP -le "print(LWP->VERSION)"

On the other hand, when I run

% perl -MLWP -le "print(LWP->VERSION)"

bash will come back at me with "no such job". Obviously, we didn't want a job, but we wanted the version number of LWP.
Another way to find the version number is to use pmvers from pmtools. Just run:

pmvers LWP

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Re^3: % o $ is not recognized as an internal or external command by Anonymous Monk on Aug 19, 2008 at 12:09 UTC
They also explain whats a prompt, like: The dollar sign (and space) at the start of the line represents the shell prompt, which will probably look different on your system.	[reply]