Proposal: One-liners
[email protected] (Rich Bowen)
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I think that it might be a little useful to have some variety of one-liner repository in the CPAN script section, or perhaps elsewhere if that makes more sense. These might be something like the following example: =head1 Using CPAN.pm perl -MCPAN -e shell =head1 What does it do? Launches the CPAN shell in order to install modules from CPAN =head1 Explanation The -M switch loads a module. The syntax is -MI<modulename>, such as -MCPAN to load C<CPAN.pm> or -MTime::JulianDay to load C<Time::JulianDay>. The -e switch indicates that what follows on the command line is the Perl code to be run. This is usually enclosed in single-quotes (double quotes on Win32), but in this case, since it is just a single word, this is not necessary. =cut This is just a thought that I had last night. I know that there are several one-liner web sites around, but it might be nice to have such a beast under CPAN. Perhaps have this as a subdir under Scripts, and have it available as HTML and/or text and/or POD. Any thoughts on this? Rich -- http://www.ApacheUnleashed.com/ Lexington Perl Mongers - http://lexington.pm.org/ PGP Key - http://www.rcbowen.com/pgp.txt