Re^2: Module Finder


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by Dietz (Curate)

on Oct 19, 2006 at 06:21 UTC ( #579283=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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If you have perldoc available on your system (some sysadmins refuse to install it), it's as easy as:

on AIX:

$ perldoc -l File::Find
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/File/Find.pm
[download]

or on Windows (returning backslashes):

C:\>perldoc -l File::Find
C:\Perl\lib\File\Find.pm
[download]

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Re^3: Module Finder by innominate (Beadle) on Oct 31, 2006 at 15:26 UTC
That's definately a good way to find a module, but if I don't know the root or branches, it does me no good...	[reply]
Re^4: Module Finder by Dietz (Curate) on Oct 31, 2006 at 16:42 UTC
The example with perldoc wasn't meant to be a reply to your OP. It was a reply to blazar's File::Find one liner. However, if you happen to know the full last part of the module name you're searching for (i.e. Digest::MD5) you could use a recursive search (-r) to find the path to the pm file: `$ perldoc -l -r MD5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Digest/MD5.pm` [download] Update: I just noticed that perldoc doesn't show multiple matches: `$ perldoc -li html::parser /usr/lib/perl5/HTML/Parser.pm $ perldoc -li xml::parser /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm $ perldoc -lri parser /usr/lib/perl5/HTML/Parser.pm` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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