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by belg4mit (Prior)
on Jul 16, 2003 at 05:53 UTC ( [id://274701]=CUFP: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

#!perl -w use strict; use vars '$VERSION'; #Added 0.02{ use File::Spec; # $VERSION = 0.03; #} foreach( @ARGV ){ eval "require $_" || next; #Short-circuit added 0.03 # s%::%/%g; $_ = File::Spec->catfile(split(/::/, $_)); #Added 0.02 $_ .= '.pm' unless /\.pm$/; print $INC{$_}, ' '; } print "\n"; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME whichpm - lists real paths of specified modules =head1 SYNOPSIS less `whichpm Bar` =head1 DESCRIPTION Analogous to the UN*X command which. Even with TAB completion entering paths like F</afs/athena.mit.edu/user/u/s/user/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/IO/Pager +> can be gruesome. ~ makes it a bit more bearable F<~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/IO/Pager>. Then inspiration struck, perl knows where its libraries are; modulo @I +NC. Better yet, you don't have to know if it's a core module or site speci +fic nor architecture specific vs. platform independent. =head1 AUTHOR Jerrad Pierce <jpierce@cpan.org> =cut

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Re: whichpm
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 16, 2003 at 07:54 UTC
    I've been using something nearly identical for a while - even named it whichpm as well.
    use strict; use warnings; use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile); my @loaded = grep { eval "require $_"; !$@ ? 1 : ($@ =~ s/\(\@INC contains: \Q@INC\E\)//, warn("Failed lo +ading $_: $@"), 0); } @ARGV; my @pm = map catfile(split '::') . (/\.pm\z/ ? '' : '.pm'), @loaded; print "@INC{@pm}\n";

    Makeshifts last the longest.

Re: whichpm
by cchampion (Curate) on Jul 16, 2003 at 08:16 UTC

    $ perldoc -l modulename would give you exactly the same result.

    Or am I missing something?

    $ perldoc -l HTML::Parser /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/HTML/Parser.pm

      The command perldoc -l gives the location of the pod which might not be the same file as the source code, for example:
      $ perldoc -l Inline::C /usr/local/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Inline/C.pod

      --
      John.

Re: whichpm
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2003 at 11:07 UTC
    I recently ran accross Module::InstalledVersion, somewhat similar in its purpose. Neither you nor it pay attention to the dynamic environment variables PERLLIB, PERL5LIB. Just letting you know ;)

    Also, you've already got the pod, so The Dynamic Duo --or-- Holy Getopt::Long, Pod::UsageMan! ;)

    update: duuuuh, I think what I was trying to say is that maybe you shouldn't be actually requireing the module, kinda like what Module::Info info does (hey, you could use Module::Info), but since you're actually editing it ++/duck

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

      I had actually thought about these vars, but assumed that require would handle the magic. I'll test it, if it doesn't it's a simple matter of a BEGIN block to split the vars and <s>push</s> unshift them onto @INC.

      UPDATE: As Aristotle got around to showing before I did, the vars are heeded

      Oh umm, okay... Why not? I actually used require intentionally. Let perl do the heavy lifting ;-) It even works for broken modules which don't return true (but not null length files).

      --
      I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.

      Oh?
      $ PERL5LIB="--->HERE<---" perl -le'print "@INC\n"' --->HERE<--- /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr +/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 +/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .

      Makeshifts last the longest.

whichpm = pmpath
by bsb (Priest) on Jul 24, 2003 at 05:22 UTC
    pmpath in pmtools (by tchrist) does this, I think.

    Here's some other goodies in pmtools.

    This is from the dpkg description of pmtools:

    Description: Perl module tools Perl module tools is a suite of small tools that help manage and insp +ect perl modules, perl Plain Old Documentation files, and perl programs. . Some of the things these tools can do include: - show the full path to a module - show the version and description of a module - list all installed modules with descriptions - show what files a given program or module loads at compile time - show what symbols a module exports - list the methods of a class - display the source code of a function of a module
Re: whichpm
by halley (Prior) on Jul 16, 2003 at 17:12 UTC

    My homegrown version started from an example in the Cookbook. I manually walk the @INC and get other module information like $VERSION and =head1 NAME summaries. With an extra option, I can also find shadowing where some yokel has defined a module with the same name as a corporate site-perl module.

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      That would be a wherepm, which could also be useful on occasion.

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Re: whichpm
by zentara (Archbishop) on Jul 17, 2003 at 15:01 UTC
    I had this one in my library collection:
    #!/usr/bin/perl #usage $0 Some::Module ($f=($m=shift).".pm")=~s{::}{/}g; eval "require $m" and print $INC{$f},$/; #1liner # perl -e '($f=($m=shift).".pm")=~s{::}{/}g; \ # eval "require $m" and print $INC{$f},$/' File::Find #also #perldoc -l Some::Module

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