puzzling. how does it not help?

question was portable oneliners, Is there a shorter way to do this?

yeah, enjoy your one liner, then let deparse write the portability version you share

files are good

Nobody needs Deparse here

$ perl -e'print "drivel";#some code'
drivel
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--->

BASH:

$ perl
print "drivel";#some code
__END__
drivel
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and CMD

D:\tmp\pm>perl
print "drivel";#some code
__END__
drivel
D:\tmp\pm>
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EDIT

And using Deparse to cover -E is producing a ridiculous amount of code

$ perl -MO=Deparse -E'print "drivel";#some code'
use feature 'current_sub', 'evalbytes', 'fc', 'postderef_qq', 'say', '
+state', 'switch', 'unicode_strings', 'unicode_eval';
print 'drivel';
-e syntax OK
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Cheers Rolf
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