List of installed modules

[fundflow]

Hi,

Is there a way to print a list of all the installed modules on the system?

It should probably work by searching the @INC directory list.

This will ease the headache of using scripts across several machines here.

Thanks.

[OeufMayo]

Is there a simple way to search Perlmonks.org?

Yes! And if you type 'Installed modules' on the search box, you'll find that this node already answered the question.

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PerlMonger::Paris(http => 'paris.pm.org');</kbd>

[fundflow]

Thanks.

"The magic is finding the search string" :)

It lead me to http://www.crusoe.net/~jeffp/programs/modlist

which is exactly what I wanted.

[epoptai]

Check out perlvars, it's modlist on steroids.

[cianoz]

i use this little script to check installed modules (and if they need to be updated)
requires CPAN.pm

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CPAN;

for my $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){
        next unless $mod->inst_file;
    print $mod->id, '(', $mod->inst_version, ') ';
    unless($mod->uptodate()) {
            print "\t\t#( V. ",$mod->cpan_version, " available on CPAN
+)";
    }
    print "\n";
}

[lemming]

  use warnings;
  use strict;
  use File::Find;

  foreach my $dir (@INC) {
    File::Find::find (\&wanted,"$dir");
  }

sub wanted {
  if ($File::Find::name =~ /\.pm$/) {
    print "$File::Find::name\n";
  }
}

Hmmm. I could do better. Instead of the full path, we should print the module as it would be called and print the version number if found.
Update: Forgot to search perlmonks. Did a search on cpan and it was quicker to whip out the above code.

[jynx]

the code's already been posted, and the other solutions are obviously better, but i wanted to do more useless one-lining...

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Find;

find { wanted => sub {print if /\.pm$/}, no_chdir=>1} $dir foreach my 
+$dir (@INC);

hmmm, there are probably subdirectories in @INC that we've already searched since it recursively goes through the directories. Which would be faster: a search through all the directories using find or a prune using a hash to not re-search directories we've been through? The following is untested (ok, so was the above code), but it's an example...

# same guidelines as above, use strict and that ilk
 my %been_at;
 sub wanted {
    return if $been_at{$dir};
    $been_at{$dir} = 1;
    print if /\.pm$/;
 }
find { wanted => \&wanted, no_chdir => 1 } $dir foreach my $dir (@INC)
+;

So the question i now have is would it be faster to make a hash or recurse possibly the same directories? i don't think this example is a significantly large enough search space to make much of a difference, but if it were would the latter method be faster? i think so but maybe someone can point out something i'm missing...


Also while i'm at it, is no_chdir a hit to performance when recursing directories? Is it better to allow it to change directories? Please comment, i'm still new to File::Find.

jynx

[chipmunk]

(Post moved to jynx's new thread: Wondering about File::Find.)