pmtools(3)

💖 NAME 💖

From the User Contributed Perl Documentation, this is pmtools(3) — Perl Module Tools ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so the whole vibe is a bunch of little commands, like this:

pmdesc module ...  pmpath module ...  pmvers module ...  ...  sitepods
...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So pmtools (short for Perl Modules Tools) is a suite of tools that was originally designed by Tom Christiansen — yes, that Tom Christiansen, periodt. 🫶

For every module name you hand it as an argument, it produces that module’s full path on standard output, one per line. That’s the whole main-character move. 💅

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Living proof, bestie:

$ pmpath CGI
/usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/CGI.pm

$ filsperl -S pmpath IO::Socket CGI::Carp
/usr/local/filsperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux-thread/IO/Socket.pm
/usr/local/filsperl/lib/5.00554/CGI/Carp.pm

$ oldperl -S pmpath CGI CGI::Imagemap
/usr/lib/perl5/CGI.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/CGI/Imagemap.pm

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Go give these their flowers: pmdesc(1), pmvers(1), pmcat(1). 💐

👑 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS 👑

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen. 🫡

Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 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". 👀

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mwah 💋 — that’s the whole page, from pmtools(3), perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-01-21. bye bestie! 🎀