Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module

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Re: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by xdg (Monsignor) on Apr 09, 2007 at 13:48 UTC
`$ perldoc -l Foo::Bar` -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by philcrow (Priest) on Apr 09, 2007 at 13:54 UTC
Yes. We use this in a shell function defined in .bashrc: viperl() { vi `perldoc -l $1 \| sed -e 's/pod$/pm/'` } [download] which begins a vi session on the module in question so you can see if it has the code you thought it did. Phil	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 09, 2007 at 17:30 UTC
If the module has both a .pod and a .pm, an undocumented trick is to say: `perldoc -lm Foo::Bar` and you get the .pm and not the .pod. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by xdg (Monsignor) on Apr 09, 2007 at 19:59 UTC
I don't think it needs the `-l` in that case. `perldoc -m Foo::Bar` [download] -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 10, 2007 at 17:35 UTC
Re: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by shmem (Chancellor) on Apr 09, 2007 at 14:25 UTC
TIMTOWTDI :-) `perl -le 'use Foo::Bar; print $INC{"Foo/Bar.pm"}'` [download] --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by jhourcle (Prior) on Apr 09, 2007 at 15:31 UTC
I keep the following shell script around: `#!/bin/sh perl "-M$1" -e 'print map { sprintf( "%20s : %s\n", $_, $INC{$_} ) } s +ort keys %INC; print "\n'$1' version : $'$1'::VERSION\n\n"'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by blazar (Canon) on Apr 10, 2007 at 13:22 UTC
TIMTOWTDI :-) Yep, and some of them were mentioned previously. (And I bet other dozens times, but I'm not much of a PM indexer, while I remember that thread for having taken part to it.)	[reply]
Re: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by ferreira (Chaplain) on Apr 09, 2007 at 14:53 UTC
Install Module::Which and say `$ which_pm Foo::Bar Foo::Bar (not found)` [download] or `$ which_pm DateTime File::Slurp -w 0 DateTime 0.35 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/c +ygwin/DateTime.pm File::Slurp 9999.12 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/F +ile/Slurp.pm` [download] or `$ which_pm Business:: --p5p Business::BR 0.00_08 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::PIS 0.00_16 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::Ids 0.00_16 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::Biz 0.00_09 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::IE 0.00_16 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::CNPJ 0.00_16 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::CPF 0.00_16 at ${installsitelib}/ Business::BR::Ids::Common 0.00_16 at ${installsitelib}/ from Config: installsitelib: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by j3 (Friar) on Apr 09, 2007 at 15:10 UTC
Just remembered, there's also pmtools.	[reply]
Re: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module by j3 (Friar) on Apr 09, 2007 at 14:59 UTC
"`locate Foo/Bar.pm`" can also come in handy sometimes, though, of course, just because `locate` can find something doesn't mean `perl` can.	[reply]


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