The -e switch executes Perl statements at the command line instead of from a script. : Perl Command « Language Basics « Perl






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The -e switch executes Perl statements at the command line instead of from a script.

  

$ perl -e 'print "hello dolly\n";'     # UNIX/Linux
$ perl -e "print qq/hello dolly\n/;"   # Windows and UNIX/Linux








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