PERL.PROV(1)

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version 0.82 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 PERL.PROV(1) — the perl.prov bestie manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to perl.prov, part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation family ✨ this one's a little script with big main character energy and honestly? it eats.

🌸 NAME 🌸

perl.prov — literally just lists what your Perl source files provide 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

perl.prov [-v|--verbose] [FILE...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this script calculates a conventional name for every Perl source file you hand it on the command line — and it figures that name out based on where the file lives relative to the standard Perl library paths 🎀

No files on the command line? No problem, bestie — it'll grab a list of files from standard input instead, one file per line 🫶

Which files get processed, you ask? The *.pm, *.pl, and *.ph girlies ✨ and heads up: the *.pm files also suffer version extraction 😭 (their words, not mine, but honestly iconic).

The output? Chef's kiss. It's suitable for automatic dependency tracking — think RPM packaging, iykyk 📦

For example, /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/DB_File.pm provides:

perl(DB_File.pm) = 1.810

(as of perl-5.8.6, no cap ⭐)

And for the lore: perl.prov is a counterpart of perl.req — they're giving duo energy 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -v, --verbose — increases verbosity, so the script spills more tea about what it's doing 🍓

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

okay so this one's not its own section in the original but it lives in OPTIONS and it MATTERS so here we are 🧚

The RPM_PERL_LIB_PATH environment variable — if you set it — must contain a list of paths, separated by colons 🎀 These paths get treated as library paths used to determine the relative names of provided Perl files, and they come in addition to the paths from the @INC variable ✨

fr fr, colon-separated. don't forget the colons bestie 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.org>, based on an earlier version by Ken Estes <kestes@staff.mail.com>, with contributions from Mikhail Zabaluev <mhz@altlinux.org>. legends only, we stan 🌟

💖 COPYING 💖

Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 Alexey Tourbin, ALT Linux Team.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • perl.req — the other half of the duo, go say hi 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — PERL.PROV(1), slay 💅✨

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