NAME
App::distfind - Find Perl module distributions within a directory
hierarchy
VERSION
version 1.101400
SYNOPSIS
$ distfind
path/to/My-Dist path/to/My-Other-Dist
$ distfind --dir foo --dir bar --prune deprecated --line
foo/some/path/My-Dist
foo/some/other/path/My-Other-Dist
bar/yet/another/path/My-Shiny
$ distfind --dir baz --print-roots
baz
$ distfind --print-path Foo-Bar --prefix "ls -al "
ls -al path/to/Foo-Bar
To be able to run programs from within your development directories
without having to install the distributions, add this to your ".bashrc":
for i in $(distfind)
do
if [ -d $i/bin ]; then
PATH=$i/bin:$PATH
fi
done
DESCRIPTION
"distfind" can find Perl module distributions in a directory hierarchy.
A Perl distribution in this sense is defined as a directory that
contains a "Makefile.PL", "Build.PL" or "dist.ini" file.
FUNCTIONS
run
The main function, which is called by the "distfind" program.
normalize_dirs
This function takes a reference to an array of directory specifications.
It then normalizes them by splitting them along colon or semicolon
characters and filters out duplicates. Tilde characters will be expanded
to $ENV{HOME}. The returning list is returned as an array reference.
find_dists
Traverses the given directories, looks for Perl module distributions,
and returns a list of paths to those distribution directories. See
"--prune" for directories that will be pruned. Also if a Perl module
distribution directory is found, it is then pruned because we assume
that it won't recursively contain another Perl module distribution.
OPTIONS
Options can be shortened according to "Case and abbreviations" in
Getopt::Long.
"--dir"
This option takes a string argument and can be given several times.
Specifies a directory that should be searched for Perl module
distributions. If no directories are specified, the value of
$ENV{PROJROOT} is added by default.
"--prune"
This option takes a string argument and can be given several times.
If a directory with this name is encountered, it will be pruned.
By default, the following directories are pruned: ".svn", ".git",
"blib" and "skel".
"--print-roots"
This option causes the directories that would be searched to be
printed, without actually searching them. The "--join" option is
used, if given. See "--dir" on how this could be different from the
options you gave at the command-line.
"--print-path"
This option takes a string argument and can be given several times.
It has the effect of restricting what will be printed to the given
distribution names. For example:
$ distfind --print-path Foo-Bar --print-path Baz
will only print paths to those distributions:
path/to/Foo-Bar path/to/Baz
"--prefix"
This option takes a string argument. If given, every distribution
path will be prefixed with this string as it is printed.
"--suffix"
This option takes a string argument. If given, every distribution
path will be suffixed with this string as it is printed.
"--join"
This option takes a string argument. When printing distribution
paths, they will be separated by this string. It defaults to a
single space character.
"--line"
Print each distribution path on a line of its own. It overrides the
"--join" option.
"--help"
Prints a brief help message and exits.
"--man"
Prints the manual page and exits.
INSTALLATION
See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl
modules.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
<
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-distfind>.
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive
Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a
CPAN site near you, or see <
http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-distfind/>.
The development version lives at
<
http://github.com/hanekomu/App-distfind/>. Instead of sending patches,
please fork this project using the standard git and github
infrastructure.
AUTHOR
Marcel Gruenauer <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Marcel Gruenauer.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.