Re: installing LWP::UserAgent on windows


"Nospam" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Iam simply testing out LWP, I tried using it to find the latest perl
> version, according to the lwp manpage
>
> this command should give me thelatest perl:
>
> perl -MLWP::Simple -e '
> getstore "ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz";,
> "perl.tar.gz"'
>
> However this is what it says after the first line:
>
> C:\Perl\bin>perl -MLWP::Simple -e '
> Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
>
> it says this error for basically any command I use for lwp
>

On Windows you need to enclose the code within double quotes ("), not within
single quotes (') as you have tried. This also means that any double quotes
inside the string of code need to be escaped. Try something like:

perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getstore
\"ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz\",\"perl.tar.gz\"";

For me that produced no error - though it seemed to hang. Perhaps I was just
not being sufficiently patient.

Cheers,
Rob


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