Manual

Reference

Modules

  • A • B • C • D • E
  • F • G • H • I • L
  • M • N • O • P • S
  • T • U • X

Tools

cpan

Perl 5 version 8.9 documentation
Go to top • Download PDF
Show page index • Show recent pages
Recently read

cpan

NAME

cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line

SYNOPSIS

  1. 	# with arguments and no switches, installs specified modules
  2. 	cpan module_name [ module_name ... ]
  4. 	# with switches, installs modules with extra behavior
  5. 	cpan [-cfimt] module_name [ module_name ... ]
  7. 	# without arguments, starts CPAN.pm shell
  8. 	cpan
  10. 	# without arguments, but some switches
  11. 	cpan [-ahrvACDLO]

DESCRIPTION

This script provides a command interface (not a shell) to CPAN. At the moment it uses CPAN.pm to do the work, but it is not a one-shot command runner for CPAN.pm.

Meta Options

These options are mutually exclusive, and the script processes them in this order: [hvCAar]. Once the script finds one, it ignores the others, and then exits after it finishes the task. The script ignores any other command line options.

  • -a

    Creates the CPAN.pm autobundle with CPAN::Shell->autobundle.

  • -A module [ module ... ]

    Shows the primary maintainers for the specified modules

  • -C module [ module ... ]

    Show the Changes files for the specified modules

  • -D module [ module ... ]

    Show the module details. This prints one line for each out-of-date module (meaning, modules locally installed but have newer versions on CPAN). Each line has three columns: module name, local version, and CPAN version.

  • -L author [ author ... ]

    List the modules by the specified authors.

  • -h

    Prints a help message.

  • -O

    Show the out-of-date modules.

  • -r

    Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with CPAN::Shell->recompile.

  • -v

    Print the script version and CPAN.pm version.

Module options

These options are mutually exclusive, and the script processes them in alphabetical order. It only processes the first one it finds.

  • c

    Runs a `make clean` in the specified module's directories.

  • f

    Forces the specified action, when it normally would have failed.

  • i

    Installed the specified modules.

  • m

    Makes the specified modules.

  • t

    Runs a `make test` on the specified modules.

Examples

  1. 	# print a help message
  2. 	cpan -h
  4. 	# print the version numbers
  5. 	cpan -v
  7. 	# create an autobundle
  8. 	cpan -a
  10. 	# recompile modules
  11. 	cpan -r
  13. 	# install modules ( sole -i is optional )
  14. 	cpan -i Netscape::Booksmarks Business::ISBN
  16. 	# force install modules ( must use -i )
  17. 	cpan -fi CGI::Minimal URI

TO DO

BUGS

* none noted

SEE ALSO

Most behaviour, including environment variables and configuration, comes directly from CPAN.pm.

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

This source is part of a SourceForge project which always has the latest sources in CVS, as well as all of the previous releases.

  1. 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/brian-d-foy/

If, for some reason, I disappear from the world, one of the other members of the project can shepherd this module appropriately.

CREDITS

Japheth Cleaver added the bits to allow a forced install (-f).

Jim Brandt suggest and provided the initial implementation for the up-to-date and Changes features.

Adam Kennedy pointed out that exit() causes problems on Windows where this script ends up with a .bat extension

AUTHOR

brian d foy, <bdfoy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001-2006, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved.

You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.

Page index