Paul Johnson has written on 7/13/2014 7:22 PM: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 06:44:18PM -0400, ESChamp wrote: >> Paul Johnson has written on 7/13/2014 5:00 PM: >> > perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < original_file.txt > just_email.txt >> >> e:\Docs\>perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < 4sam.txt > just_email.txt >> Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. > > Ah, you're on Windows. I think you need to use " quotes: > >>perl -nale "print $F[-1]" < 4sam.txt > just_email.txt > > but if I'm wrong, someone who knows more about Windows should be able to > say. >
That one worked! Thanks. Windows does not treat a single quote as a special character!!! Who knew? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
