You have a list? Join all the lines into a single, space-separated line and put that on the cpan command line instead of running cpan as an interactive shell. Or maybe multiple lines, given that you have 2000 package names and a single line of that length may exceed your OS's/shell's limits, but that's still suitable for a shell script that just runs the cpan commands one after the other.

cpan CPAN Foo::Bar Baz Xyzzy Acme::Frotz...

You'll obviously also want to configure cpan to not ask questions about following dependencies and so forth before doing this, if that isn't how you normally have it configured in the first place.

In reply to Re: loading >>1 CPAN modules by dsheroh
in thread loading >>1 CPAN modules by misterperl

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