PMALL(1p)

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version 2.2.0 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

🌸 PMALL(1p) 🌸

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the pmall page from the perl manual and it's genuinely so useful 💖

✨ NAME ✨

pmall — show all installed versions and descs 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pmall [-d] [-w] [-a] [-s]
pmall - show all installed versions and descs

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the vibe is: this program runs through all your installed modules and tells you what they're for and what version number they're at. that's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? iconic. 💅

The following options are honored:

  • -v — give debug info 🔍
  • -w — warn about missing descriptions on modules 😭
  • -a — include relative paths 📁
  • -s — sort output within each directory 🌈

📜 HISTORICAL NOTE 📜

okay so lore time 🫶 This program used to be called pmdesc and is included in The Perl Cookbook under that name. However, that name has been usurped by a simpler program. not me getting my name stolen, the disrespect 😭

For example, to find the versions of what is in your site-specific directory, the simpler pmdesc might be preferred:

$ pmdesc `pminst -s | perl -lane 'print $F[1] if $F[0] =~ /site/'`
XML::Parser::Expat (2.19) - Lowlevel access to James Clark's expat XML parser
XML::Parser (2.19) - A perl module for parsing XML documents

see? clean, useful, chef's kiss. 🍓

💀 KNOWN BUGS 💀

This program takes a long time to run.

like. a long time. go make a snack, text your bestie back, come back, it's still running. fr fr. 🐌

Some modules don't work right (CPAN.pm, ExtUtils) because of noisy things they do at compile time or poor formatting of the pod. not their fault, not pmall's fault, just chaos. 🙈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

pmdesc(1) pmvers(1)

👑 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS 👑

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.

💖 LICENSE 💖

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".

aaaand that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🫶 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-14, and it's the PMALL(1p) page — slay, periodt 💅✨

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