Re^2: Module Finder

[Dietz]

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

or on Windows (returning backslashes):

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

[innominate]

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...

[Dietz]

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

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