Perl maintains configuration data from build-time in the Config.pm module. This snippet (one-liner) prints out the basic dirs comprising your Perl's directory layout.

I have to confess to having updated this code on Wed Aug 6 2003 UTC because I discovered it was failing to mention vendorlib.* dirs, which for some Perl installations (such as my own ones on Debian) will be a very important area. Also, there is now posted a full Perl program to pretty-print this Perl configuration info at this node in the Code Catacombs. 


 *shprompt$ perl \
-'V:^(?!ta|mv|mu|d_)\w*(?:bin(?!compat)|arch(?!name|obj)|priv|(?:vendo
+r|site)(?!lib_|prefix))[a-z]*'

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Note that the install.* parameters are mostly going to be identical to the same named parameters without install on the front. I don't want to say all out of prudence.

exp in the parameter names shown means "expanded" as in, for example, the typical shell expansions that will be done for user home dirs "~/".

This code has been tested with Perl 5.6.1 and Perl 5.8.0. For other values of $], OMMV.

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