Hi Anon,

Thanks for your post. I'm sure there is some useful information here if I had any idea what it meant, but I'm afraid I'm none the wiser.

Sorry,

Steve

Different Anon here

I guess, https://metacpan.org/module/CPAN#Configuration-for-individual-distributions-Distroprefs- feature of CPAN , for automating such interactions, and associated distroprefs examples , won't help you write a shell script to automate cpan

yeah, too bad this is perlmonks and CPAN is all perl