NAME

mkselfextract - Creates a self-extracting perl script.

SYNOPSIS

mkselfextract <perlsourcefile> <zipfile>

DESCRIPTION

mkselfextract combines a file containing Perl code and a compressed zip archive into a single file. This file can be run as a Perl program, which as its first action will extract the data in the zip file into a temporary directory.

To create such a self-extracting script, you can do something like the following:

% zip -r9 distrib.zip src/ doc/ lib/ bin/
% mkselfextract setup-script.pl distrib.zip > setup.pl

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

To install Archive::SelfExtract, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Archive::SelfExtract

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Archive::SelfExtract

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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