On 2/24/06, Rogan Dawes <discard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Interesting. I tried to do that one-liner at a DOS prompt (not cygwin, > which I assume you are using), and I was unable to do so. Yes, it was from cygwin's bash. > Do you get the same results if you run it from a DOS prompt? and via a file? Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\>perl -e 'print qx{echo joe & echo joe}' Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. joe}' C:\>perl -e "print qx{echo joe & echo joe}" joe & echo joe C:\>perl x.pl joe & echo joe C:\> - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html