NAME

cpanp - The CPANPLUS launcher

SYNOPSIS

cpanp

cpanp [ --[no]option... ] [-]a [ author... ]

cpanp [ --[no]option... ] [-]dhilmp [ module... ]

DESCRIPTION

This script launches the CPANPLUS utility to perform various operations from the command line. If it's invoked without arguments, an interactive shell is executed by default.

Optionally, it can take a single-letter switch and one or more argument, to perform the associated action on each arguments. The commands are:

a AUTHOR...	# search by author(s)
m MODULE...	# search by module(s)
i MODULE...	# install module(s)
d MODULE...	# download module(s) into current directory
p MODULE...	# display the package that contains the module(s)
l MODULE...	# display detailed information about module(s)
h 		# show help message

Each command may be prefixed with one or more options. If preceded by no, the corresponding option will be set to 0, otherwise it's set to 1. The valid options includes debug, flush, force, prereqs, storable, verbose and md5; please consult CPANPLUS::Configure for an explanation to their meanings.

SEE ALSO

CPANPLUS

AUTHORS

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2001 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html