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 . AVAILABILITY The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit to find a CPAN site near you, or see . The development version lives at . Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github infrastructure. AUTHOR Marcel Gruenauer 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.