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in thread perl sort on windows

And Windows utilities never have -something options, only /something options.

sure they do, you might be thinking of "commands"

all of these windows utilities take -dash -options

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Re^4: perl sort on windows
by hdb (Monsignor) on Mar 25, 2013 at 07:27 UTC

    What I meant was that

    dir -?

    is not

    dir /?

    under Windows.

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      Right, and "dir" is not a "window utility" it is a command 
      $ help |head -n1
For more information on a specific command, type HELP command-name

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        Point conceded, but so is "sort". At least on my box, "sort -?" gives something else than "sort /?". 
        C:\>help|head -n1
'head' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

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