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Perl » Language Basics » Perl Command

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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