DUMPCPANDIST(1)

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version 1.54 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 DUMPCPANDIST(1) 💖

okay bestie so you found DUMPCPANDIST(1) in the perl section of your manual and you're like "what is this little guy" — don't worry, i got you. it's giving very niche, very useful, and we're gonna go through it together, section by section, no skips, no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dumpcpandist — show some details for a distribution from the CPAN 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dumpcpandist $filename [use_tar => ...]

so where $filename is a tarball or a zipfile from the CPAN, mmkay? 📦

and the arguments? literally the exact same as CPAN::ParseDistribution's new() method. same energy, same options, no surprises. ✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • CPAN::ParseDistribution — yeah this is the whole vibe, go read it 🫶

Copyright 2009 David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> 💌

This software is free-as-in-speech software, and may be used, distributed, and modified under the terms of either the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or the Artistic Licence. It's up to you which one you use, bestie, genuinely your call, i'm not gonna pick for you. 😌

The full text of the licences can be found in the files GPL2.txt and ARTISTIC.txt, respectively. 📄

🧚 CONSPIRACY 🧚

This module is also free-as-in-mason software. 👀

ngl that's just what it says, i'm not gonna elaborate, iykyk. 🤫

and that's the whole page, babe — no crumbs left. this lil doc lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation pages, and the footer energy is perl v5.42.0 dated 2025-07-25. 🩷 stay slaying, go dump some CPAN dists, mwah 💋✨

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