If all you want, for a start, is a map of which script is called when, and all the scripts are Perl 5 scripts (and not Perl 4!!), then I would write some logging routines and load them into every Perl script via the PERL5OPT=-MMy::Logging::Script environment variable.

Depending on your specific needs, it might already be enough to do the following:

export PERL5OPT=-e'BEGIN{local *LOG; open LOG, ">", "$ENV{HOME}/script
+log.log; print LOG "$0 started at ". localtime()}'

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This requires no modification to your existing scripts, but it needs to be available in the environment. This means that the scripts that are run through the cron program need to be modified, or you have to modify the crontab calling these scripts.

I don't know of any call graph generator for Perl, so other than weeding out the scripts that are not immediately called via the shell, this won't be of much help and you'll have to go through the scripts with a fine comb anyway.

In reply to Re: parsing a load of perl scripts by Corion
in thread parsing a load of perl scripts by Anonymous Monk

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