in reply to 'perl -le' not working on the command line

As the AM has already indicated, the fault lies with the shell, or what Windoze chooses to call it.

The 'shell' ignores, or appears not to recognise, single quotes - try enclosing your CLI command in double quotes ... 

perl -Mbignum -le "print 2**255;"

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As I haven't had a Windoze box for quite a while, I can't actually demonstrate this.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: 'perl -le' not working on the command line
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 26, 2011 at 16:07 UTC
    If I passed C source code to perl, the resulting error is not Perl's fault. Similarly, the error that results from presenting cmd with a bash command is not the shell's fault.
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