in reply to code to grab the latest version of a module from CPAN?

#!/usr/bin/perl
#  --
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use CPAN;

CPAN::Shell->install($ARGV[0]);

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Re^2: code to grab the latest version of a module from CPAN?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Mar 07, 2004 at 17:37 UTC

    "I just want to download it, not install it." said the OP.

    CPAN::Shell->get('My::Module') (untested) should download and extract into your .cpan directory - wherever that may be. AFAIK CPAN doesn't expose anything with any more control.

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Re: Re: code to grab the latest version of a module from CPAN?
by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 07, 2004 at 17:33 UTC
    Doesn't that install it? I specifically want to simply download it, and not install it.
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      I haven't used this module - just saw it on the CPAN updated modules list.

      Not sure if you want to untar the files as well as download them but this looks pretty close:

      uncpan - Utility to get and untar CPAN files.
      http://search.cpan.org/~qjzhou/uncpan-1.01/uncpan

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