Perl One-Liners

Appendix B. Using Perl One-Liners On Windows

In this appendix, I’ll show you how to run Perl on Windows, install a bash port on Windows, and use Perl one-liners in three different ways: from the Windows bash port, the Windows command prompt (cmd.exe), and PowerShell.

B.1 Perl on Windows

Before you can run Perl on Windows, you need to install Perl for Windows. My favorite Windows Perl port is Strawberry Perl (http://strawberryperl.com/), a Perl environment with everything you need to run and develop Perl applications on Windows. Strawberry Perl is designed to function as much as possible like the Perl environment on UNIX systems. It includes Perl binaries, the gcc compiler and related build tools, and many external libraries.

To install Strawberry ...