This is a Windows/MS-DOS limitation. According to perldiag: You’re on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if you try reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have to say -i.bak, or some such. Perl’s -i implementation causes it to delete file1.txt while keeping an open handle to it, then re-create the … Read more
As others have pointed out perl blah.pl asdf works, while blah.pl asdf fails. This is because when you run the perl script directly, Windows realizes it must call perl, and uses the rule perl “%1”, which only passes the script name to perl, not any of the parameters. To fix this, you have to tell … Read more
I use #!/usr/bin/perl in my scripts and configure Apache on Windows to ignore the shebang line. Add ScriptInterpreterSource Registry-Strict to your httpd.conf and set up the Windows Registry key as explained in the Apache docs. Here is what I get when I export the key: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pl\Shell\ExecCGI\Command] @=”c:\\opt\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe” I have been … Read more