in reply to XP fails, HP-UX OK

MS Windows' shell does not use single quotes the way *nix shells do. Swap single and double quotes for Strawberry.

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Re^2: XP fails, HP-UX OK
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2012 at 13:54 UTC

    Swap single and double quotes for Strawberry.

    :) not for strawberry or any perl, but for the shell, for cmd.exe :)

Re^2: XP fails, HP-UX OK
by Saved (Beadle) on Mar 07, 2012 at 13:56 UTC

    Thanx, works gr8