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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MS-DOS perl
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.203915.5983@holos0.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 90 20:39:15 GMT
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In article <1990Sep22.182316.5325@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) writes:
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>Several persons have told me about -e problems.  They don't even appear to
>work on the Korn shell, which seems weird since the ksh should take the
>stuff between single quotes and put it into a single argument for perl.

Did I really write this? :-)

Of course it can't work with the current version of perl.exe.  If the shell
strips out the quotes, perl.exe will split the "arguments" on the embedded
white space.  If a shell doesn't strip the quotes, perl.exe won't get
it right either because it doesn't treat quotes specially.  MKS argument
passing will handle this for MKS users; for others, perl.exe will have to
glob the command line.  As I said, I may or may not do the latter, but
at the very least I'll leave hooks for someone else to do it.
-- 
Len Reed
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