Q&A
| Q1: | My one-liners don't work in MacPerl. |
| A1: | Make sure in the Edit, Peferences, Scripts dialog that you have “Run Scripts Opened from Finder” selected. If you've chosen “Edit” here your one-liners won't work (“One Liner” is itself a MacPerl script). |
| Q2: | My one-liners don't work in Windows. |
| A2: | Notions of quotes are different in the Windows/DOS command line than they are on Unix. You can use both single and double-quotes in Unix; in Windows you can only use double quotes. For one-liners in Windows, make sure that you surround the entire one-line script in double-quotes and that all quotes inside the actual script are back-slashed. |
| Q3: | My one-liners don't work in Unix. |
| A3: | They don't? Did you type the script all on one line with no returns? Did ... |
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