PATCHPERL(1)

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version 2.14 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ PATCHPERL ✨

okay so real quick — this is the manual page for patchperl, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section (that's section 1, bestie, we love a classic). It's the command that patches a perl source tree. yes. that's the whole vibe. 💅

💖 NAME 💖

patchperl — patch a perl source tree

like... it patches. a perl source tree. that's it, that's the girl. 🎀

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.14 — periodt, that's the one we're running 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

  patchperl

that's it. no args, no drama, just run her. ✨

👑 COMMAND LINE SWITCHES 👑

  • --version — prints the version of Devel::PatchPerl to STDOUT and then exits. just a lil flex, then she's gone. 💅
  • --patchlevel — okay so here's the tea 🍵: Devel::PatchPerl will normally update the patchlevel.h file inside the perl source tree, so it can show off that it applied local patches. that behaviour gets negated if it detects it's operating inside a git repository. if you wanna override that and force patchlevel.h to get updated anyway — even while you're in a Git repo — you use this switch. main character override energy, fr fr. 🔥

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk> — iconic, we stan 💜

This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Chris Williams and Marcus Holland-Moritz.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. (yes bestie, free software, go wild, just respect the terms 🍓)

and that's the page!! this was rendered by perl v5.42.0 on 2025-09-01 — so if you're reading this from the future, hi, ily, check if there's a newer perl first 💖✨🎀

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