On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it should be:
> 
> $ raku *-e* "your one-liner script here"

And also you might want to put some quotes around the paths to let Raku
know that those are strings and not some identifiers or something.

G'luck,
Peter

> Le sam. 16 mai 2020 à 12:16, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
> perl6-users@perl.org> a écrit :
> 
> > On 2020-05-15 22:30, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
> > > Hi All,.
> > >
> > > Windows 7, sp1, x64
> > >
> > >  >raku -v
> > > This is Rakudo version 2020.01 built on MoarVM version
> > > 2020.01.1 implementing Perl 6.d.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am trying to get perl to tell me if a drive letter exists
> > >
> > > This is from Git's df command:
> > >
> > >  >df -kPT H:\
> > > Filesystem     Type 1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> > > H:             ntfs       38908  9964     28944      26% /h
> > >
> > > So, H:\ is there
> > >
> > >  >raku "say H:\.IO.e"
> > > Could not open say H:\.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such file or
> > directory
> > >
> > > And in case I need \\
> > >
> > >  >raku "say H:\\.IO.e"
> > > Could not open say H:\\.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such file or
> > > directory
> > >
> > > And in case I need a forward slashL:
> > >  >raku "say H:/.IO.e"
> > > Could not open say H:/.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such file or
> > directory
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong, this time?
> > >
> > > -T
> > >
> >
> >
> > As far as I can tell IO.e and IO.d is completely trashed
> > in Windows:
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>dir H:
> >   Volume in drive H is BACKUP
> >   Volume Serial Number is 00D0-CAD4
> >
> >   Directory of H:\
> >
> > 05/15/2020  22:21                 0 IAmBackup
> > 05/15/2020  22:43    <DIR>          MyDocsBackup
> >                 1 File(s)              0 bytes
> >                 1 Dir(s)      29,638,656 bytes free
> >
> >
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h://IAmBackup'.IO.e"
> > Could not open say 'h://IAmBackup'.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or di
> > rectory
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h:/IAmBackup'.IO.e"
> > Could not open say 'h:/IAmBackup'.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or directory
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h:\IAmBackup'.IO.e"
> > Could not open say 'h:\IAmBackup'.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or directory
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h:\\IAmBackup'.IO.e"
> > Could not open say 'h:\\IAmBackup'.IO.e. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or directory
> >
> >
> > And that goes for IO.d too:
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h:\\MyDocsBackup'.IO.d"
> > Could not open say 'h:\\MyDocsBackup'.IO.d. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or
> >   directory
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h:\MyDocsBackup'.IO.d"
> > Could not open say 'h:\MyDocsBackup'.IO.d. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or directory
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h:/MyDocsBackup'.IO.d"
> > Could not open say 'h:/MyDocsBackup'.IO.d. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or directory
> >
> > K:\Windows\NtUtil>raku "say 'h://MyDocsBackup'.IO.d"
> > Could not open say 'h://MyDocsBackup'.IO.d. Failed to stat file: no such
> > file or  directory
> >
> > This gets a TRIPLE:  :'(  :'(  :'(
> >
> >
> >
> > And it only works slightly better under Fedora:
> >
> > $ p6 'say "GetOptLongTest.pl6".IO.e'
> > True
> >
> > $ p6 'say "GetOptLongTest.pl7".IO.e'
> > False
> >
> > $ p6 'say "p6lib".IO.d'
> > True
> >
> > $ p6 'say "p7lib".IO.d'
> > Failed to find '/home/linuxutil/p7lib' while trying to do '.d'
> >    in block <unit> at -e line 1
> >
> > Notice that it crashed instead of returning a False.
> >
> > This gets a single :'(
> >
> > <editorial comment> AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! </editorial comment>
> >

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