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 <marcel@cpan.org>

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.

cpanm App::distfind

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::distfind