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[dinkypumpkin]

On 04/02/2013 15:51, Rob Dixon wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 14:32, dinkypumpkin wrote:
>> Try this on Windows:
>>
>> --command "perl -e """($new = $old = shift) =~ s/\-+\././; rename
>> $old, $new""" ""<filename>"""
>
> That works fine. Thank you. But I am lost as to why. I assume this is
> because of Perl command-line processing, as I get a different result
> from a simple cmd file.

It's the left angle bracket that causes the problem on the command line. 
  I think you get "The system cannot find the path specified" because 
it's being interpreted as an input redirection.  If it is hard against 
an unescaped quote (terminating a quoted part), apparently it isn't. 
Another way you can do it that might make more sense:

--command "perl -e \"($new = $old = shift)=~ s/\-+\././; rename $old, 
$new\" \""<filename>"\""