create-modulino(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

create-modulino — bestie, this makes a CLI wrapper around a modulino. That's the whole vibe. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so like, three ways to use this, depending on where you want the thing to land:

# create $RealBin/my-app
create-modulino -m My::App

# create /usr/local/bin/my-app
create-modulino -i /usr/local/bin -m My::App

# create /usr/local/bin app
create-modulino -a app -i /usr/local/bin -m My::App

✨ Options ✨

• -h, --help — help 🫶 (it's giving "I got you")
• -a, --alias — the name of the modulino. default is the module name, but lower cased and snake cased, periodt.
• -m, --module — the module name 💅 the actual Perl module that implements the modulino.
• -i, --installbindir — the executable directory, aka where the wrapper gets dropped.

🎀 Example 🎀

create-modulino -i /usr/local/bin -a find-requires -m Module::ScanDeps::FindRequires

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It creates a so-called wrapper for a so-called "modulino". modulino is such a cute word ngl. Modulinos are Perl modules that use this pattern:

caller or exit __PACKAGE__->main

…and the whole point is that it lets you flexibly use a Perl module as a script. main character energy fr fr. 👑

heads up bestie, go read CLI::Simple for more info about modulinos, that's where the tea is. 🍓

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Rob Lauer — <rlauer@treasurersbriefcase.com> 🌟

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

CLI::Simple — literally the icon, the blueprint, the moment. ✨

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okay and just so you know where this came from: this page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-10, and it lives under User Contributed Perl Documentation as create-modulino(1p). mwah, that's a wrap. 💖🎀🫶