Re^3: Find installed Perl modules matching a regular expression

Nice idea. However, it does not seem to work if a sub-directory of a directory in @INC has been modified. Since directories under @INC can be arbitrarily deep, it would be necessary to perform a find on all directories, which is what the init file was designed to avoid.

Perhaps there is a more efficient way to check if any directory has been modified throughout a tree.

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Re^4: Find installed Perl modules matching a regular expression by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2009 at 01:08 UTC
it would be necessary to perform a find on all directories I don't think that is neccessary. perllocal.pod lives in @INC, and when you install modules (with ExtUtils::MakeMaker), perllocal.pod gets updated, and the directory mtime gets updated. Since Module::Build doesn't update perllocal (yet), and neither do ppm or apt-get..., after installing a module an admin might touch @INC `$atime = $mtime = time; utime $atime, $mtime, @INC;` [download] Additional directories to check might be `perl -V:installbin -V:installscript -V:installsitebin` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Find installed Perl modules matching a regular expression by toolic (Bishop) on Sep 27, 2009 at 00:17 UTC
Thanks for the explanations. I will investigate these tips further.	[reply]