On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:00:44 -0800 (PST), Christopher Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the answer Chris! Now my question is how > do I find out if it is actually on my machine! I > don't want to have to download anything because I am > writing this script on one machine and then I am going > to send it to another to be used. perl -v yields: > > This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for > darwin-thread-multi-2level > (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) > > I am using Darwin on Mac OS X. > > ===== > "I'm the last person to pretend that I'm a radio. I'd rather go out and be a > color television set." > -David Bowie > > "Who dares wins" > -British military motto > > "The freak is the norm." - "The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman" by > Angela Carter
The -M option to perl loads modules on the command line: perl -MIO::Prompt -e 'print "module found\n"' This will print module found if the module loaded, and a bunch of errors if it didn't. you can also use the cpan shell or perl -MCPAN to get information on installed modules, but if all you need to know is if it's there, the one-liner does the trick. It's not part of the default install on OS X, though, so it's probably not on your system. HTH, --jay -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
