Re^2: Questions about creating CPAN modules

Thanks,

I'll have a study on Module::Install and it's requires_external_bin.

which: Seek and ye shall find... I should have sought first. It appears that CPAN already has a File::Which. One down...

cat: While there is a File::Cat, it appears to merely concatenate files, whereas I was using cat for it's ability to expand environment variables and assorted backticked commands. For example:

cat <<EOT
It is `date` and $USER needs more coffee.
EOT
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I'm not even sure where to begin to re-impliment that in perl.

--gsiems

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Re^3: Questions about creating CPAN modules by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2009 at 11:25 UTC
What you rely on is no magic on the part of `cat` but more on the part of `/bin/sh`, and no, there is no easy way to replicate that functionality as-is without writing a shell interpreter.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Questions about creating CPAN modules by gsiems (Deacon) on Oct 14, 2009 at 02:12 UTC
True... however, I don't know how else to do it without using `cat` as a wrapper of sorts. So, even though `cat` does not contain the magic it seems to be needed to enable the magic. --gsiems	[reply]