in reply to EPIC grep

Shell quoting on Windows is different from shell quoting on Unix. Could that be your problem?

Windows uses double quotes for shell quoting, whereas a single quote is a plain character.

Although, admittedly, I don't know what Cygwin perl uses for shell.

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Re^2: EPIC grep
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 02, 2009 at 09:19 UTC
    cygwin uses unix style, sh (or bash) but you can still invoke cmd.exe
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