The safest way to do perl one-liners is to wrap the parameters within “” (double-quotes) then use q() and qq() inside the parameters. q() and qq() will put whatever is inside them between single-quotes or double-quotes, respectively.
Taken from the ActiveState Perl winfaq4, but edited so it’s real, actual, readable english (with->will in the second sentence).
So, I evacuated in the wake of Rita. A quick 9.5 hour drive to Austin and I was sitting in my mom and stepdad’s living room with some other friends who made up our makeshift caravan. A bit later, I’m talking to a reporter from Cincinnati. Lemme back up. My step-sister lives up there, knows [...]
“Every piece of computer software, no matter how small, involves at least a team of two — me, and me six months from now when I have to fix it.”
Anything that can grind a BMW into chunks is OK in my book:
SSI Shredders in action.