I am grateful that you guys did not come up with a easy solution. This means I am not over-looking something obvious (a problem shared...)

Because these scripts reach-out and touch production files/databases, a solution that requires running the script is not a happy one.

The ultimate goal would be a "lint" type of check for each perl script that can be run when the script is submitted for production release. There is also the problem of having .. 5 different Linux servers without identical perl modules installed. My boss that wants the ability to know if a script working on machine A can be moved to machine C. This means identifying the real required modules and perhaps documenting them, but not trusting the "use" statements at the top of each script.

I hoped I could comment out all "use xxxx" statements and run "perl -c" or "perl -Mdiagnostics" and get a list of all the un-resolved function calls. This would at least get me started.

But.. un-resolved function calls generate run-time errors. (grrr). Any thoughts?

In reply to Thank you for the thoughts by FatDog
in thread How do I detect what modules are not being used? by FatDog

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