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Shell or PERL
It depends upon your platform and long-term goals. Generally, because it is portable nearly everywhere, I would advise PERL. Longer term: BASH and/or KORN as well. There are things that PERL is not well suited to. It has greater power and is very versatile (and FAST), but anything that has to call or start other processes is better done in a shell. A mature SYSADM will be very comfortable with both shell and PERL coding.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
perl-depends
PERL-DEPENDS(1) cvs status - formatter PERL-DEPENDS(1)
NAME
perl-depends - Roughly find out module depends from Perl file(s)
SYNOPSIS
perl-depends [options] FILE [FILE ...]
DESCRIPTION
Find out roughly the modules the program uses. This is based on the idea, that Perl evaluates the "use" commands at compile time and stores
the loaded module information into the %INC variable. By examining the loaded modules and comparing them against the standard Perl modules,
the external module dependencies can be roughly estimated.
The depends information can be used to determine what external modules have to be installed before a program can be used.
The target FILE have to be instrumented with the dependency checking code. The resulting "binary" is then stored in a temporary file which
the user runs.
This program does not run the instrumented files because it cannot know what possible options need to be passed for the program to trigger
"no behavior". That is, something that doesn't actually involve executing the "binary" in real. Such options passed would include
--version, --dry-run, invalid options like --generate-syntax-error-now, or invalid files etc. to make program stop on error. The user can
know better the details of running the intrumented file.
An example of output: the external module depends here is 'Regexp::Common' and the rest of them can be ignored.
Regexp::Common Regexp/Common.pm
Regexp::Common::CC Regexp/Common/CC.pm
...
OPTIONS
-e, --extension=EXT
Use extension EXT for instrumented files. The default is ".tmp".
-h, --help
Print text help
--help-html
Print help in HTML format.
--help-man
Print help in manual page man(1) format.
-v, --verbose LEVEL
Print informational messages. Increase numeric LEVEL for more verbosity.
-V, --version
Print contact and version information.
EXAMPLES
Instrument a file, run it to see results and delete instrumentation:
perl-depends file.pl
perl file.pl.tmp --version
rm *.tmp
TROUBLESHOOTING
None.
ENVIRONMENT
None.
FILES
None.
EXIT STATUS
This program's exit status is not defined.
The instrumented programs exit status is 1 in case external moduels are displayed and 0 if no external modules are found.
DEPENDENCIES
Uses standard Perl modules.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
cpan(1)
AVAILABILITY
http://freshmeat.net/projects/perl-depends
AUTHOR
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify program under the terms of GNU General Public license either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
perl v5.10.1 2011-03-24 PERL-DEPENDS(1)