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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-19 09:20:22 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-19 09:20:22 +0000 |
commit | 6175e92675be1342fe51e34be66eb32d50cd8c0b (patch) | |
tree | c4c1e32546ebbe26100263579261519cb2172194 /pod/perlmodlib.pod | |
parent | 227e8dd41da683de6280c9d2acd3b6b29fd52832 (diff) | |
download | perl-6175e92675be1342fe51e34be66eb32d50cd8c0b.tar.gz |
mention how to look up perllocal.pod (from Michael G Schwern)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5827
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diff --git a/pod/perlmodlib.pod b/pod/perlmodlib.pod index c1f4aca6be..b42a2d881c 100644 --- a/pod/perlmodlib.pod +++ b/pod/perlmodlib.pod @@ -802,17 +802,22 @@ By-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions To find out I<all> modules installed on your system, including those without documentation or outside the standard release, -jus tdo this: +just do this: % find `perl -e 'print "@INC"'` -name '*.pm' -print -They should all have their own documentation installed and accessible -via your system man(1) command. If you do not have a B<find> +To get a log of all module distributions which have been installed +since perl was installed, just do: + + % perldoc perllocal + +Modules should all have their own documentation installed and accessible +via your system man(1) command, or via the C<perldoc> program. If you do +not have a B<find> program, you can use the Perl B<find2perl> program instead, which generates Perl code as output you can run through perl. If you have a B<man> program but it doesn't find your modules, you'll have -to fix your manpath. See L<perl> for details. If you have no -system B<man> command, you might try the B<perldoc> program. +to fix your manpath. See L<perl> for details. =head2 Extension Modules |