FILES.PL(1)

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version 1.0 · 3 versions
, in epel 9

💅 files.pl — the manual page, bestie

ok so this is the manual page for files.pl version 1.0 — it's filed under User Commands in section 1 of the manual, and honestly? It's giving "cry for help" energy. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

files.pl — the manual page for files.pl 1.0. That's it, that's the name section. Short queen. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the situation, and ngl it's a little tragic 😭. This isn't really a description of what files.pl does — it's the sound of the script faceplanting before it even gets going. The page literally just shows you the error it coughed up:

Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
File::Find module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32
/usr/local/share/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at
./files.pl line 16.  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./files.pl
line 16.

so like — breaking it down for you 💖 — Perl is out here saying "Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC" and then helpfully adding "(you may need to install the File::Find module)". Like yes bestie, thank you for the diagnosis 🙈.

Then it dumps the entire @INC search list it looked through, so you can see exactly where it didn't find it:

  • /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32
  • /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32
  • /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
  • /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
  • /usr/lib64/perl5
  • /usr/share/perl5

and the location of the crime? ./files.pl line 16. 🚨

Then the second half of the message: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./files.pl line 16. — which is just Perl's way of saying "we never even made it out of the gate, the whole compilation is aborted, at ./files.pl line 16." Both mentions are line 16, fr fr. Same line. Same drama. 💀

lowkey the vibe check here is: this script needs File::Find and it does not have File::Find, so nothing runs. That's the whole story. No cap.

No OPTIONS section, no EXAMPLES, no SEE ALSO, no exit statuses — the manpage never got that far because the program never got that far 😭. It's giving "unfinished symphony" but make it Perl.

🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

so that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, that's genuinely all of it. This little artifact is files.pl 1.0, dated November 2022, from manual section FILES.PL(1). An icon of our time, preserved forever in the manpage database. 💅✨🦋

may all your modules be installed and all your @INC paths be blessed 🙏💜

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