C:\Windows\system32>perl -e 'print "Hello World\n"'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
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melpomene
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On MSWin, single quotes behave differently to *nix shells. You need double quotes instead, and for the inside, use the qq operator.
perl -e "print qq(Hello World\n)"
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Thank you it worked. Why the qq? – Sunny Shinde Sep 13 '19 at 20:16
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To avoid the need to escape the nested double quotes. – choroba Sep 13 '19 at 22:45