Re: installing LWP::UserAgent on windows

"Nospam" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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
>

The single quotes may only be used with Unix shells. In the Windows
command line, you have to use "..." instead, and turn all "..." inside
of the onliner into qq{...}.

Regards,
Slaven

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