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Hmm, is -j a new option? 
$ cpan -j some/other/file Module::Foo
Unknown option: j
LWP not available
$ cpan -v
cpan script version 1.03
CPAN.pm version 1.7602

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Re^3: cpan home
by tinita (Parson) on Feb 16, 2011 at 14:02 UTC
    yes, it's quite new, but OTOH, it's in version App::Cpan 1.57 which is from december 2009.
    I just knew about the option because I was one of the people who requested this feature. Unfortunately I don't see it in the changelog so I don't know in which version it was introduced.

    update: s/App::cpan/App::Cpan/ (although the linked cpan search is case insensitive, but anonymous monk complained)
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Re^3: cpan home
by toolic (Bishop) on Feb 16, 2011 at 14:05 UTC
    The -j option exists in the current release (5.12.2) on Perl documentation. Refer to cpan. You could search through the perldelta's if you want to know when this feature was added.

    I'm on perl 5.12.2: 

    cpan -v
cpan script version 1.5701, CPAN.pm version 1.9456

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        its not included in http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/Changes either.
        Why should it? it's not a feature of CPAN.pm but of the cpan script delivered by App::Cpan. Which, like I was mentioning earlier, also doesn't have something about -j in the changelog.

        update: s/App::cpan/App::Cpan/ (although the linked cpan search is case insensitive, but anonymous monk complained)
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