LOL++ (Re: OT: It's arrived!)

[Matt Lawrence]

Aaron Crane wrote:
> Jonathan Stowe writes:
>   
>> Yes but anyone who has tried running perl one-liners more than once
>> will have been annoyed by this and would have switched off shell
>> history expansion, like, you know, years ago.
>>     
>
> I don't find that.  Using shell double-quotes for Perl one-liners is
> painful, because $ is meaningful inside shell double-quotes.  That's
> easily solved by using shell single-quotes -- but history expansion
> doesn't apply in shell single-quotes, so the two don't conflict.
>
>   
I habitually use single quotes for one-liners, so I always get caught
out if I have the misfortune to be using Windows' excuse for a shell, in
which the only quote character is "

> perl -le 'print "Hello World"'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

Quite annoying, but at least you don't have to worry about variable
expansion most of the time as it's impossible (AFAIK) to escape it in
any way.


Matt