1ExtUtils::Command(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide ExtUtils::Command(3pm)
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NAME

6       ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Make‐
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SYNOPSIS

10         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e cat files... > destination
11         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e mv source... destination
12         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e cp source... destination
13         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e touch files...
14         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e rm_f files...
15         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e rm_rf directories...
16         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e mkpath directories...
17         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e eqtime source destination
18         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e test_f file
19         perl -MExtUtils::Command  -e chmod mode files...
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DESCRIPTION

23       The module is used to replace common UNIX commands.  In all cases the
24       functions work from @ARGV rather than taking arguments.  This makes
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27         perl -MExtUtils::Command -e some_command some files to work on
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31         perl -MExtUtils::Command -e 'some_command qw(some files to work on)'
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33       For that use Shell::Command.
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35       Filenames with * and ? will be glob expanded.
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37       cat
38               cat file ...
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40           Concatenates all files mentioned on command line to STDOUT.
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45           Sets modified time of destination to that of source.
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48               rm_rf files or directories ...
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50           Removes files and directories - recursively (even if readonly)
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75           Copies sources to the destination.  Multiple sources are allowed if
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83           Sets UNIX like permissions 'mode' on all the files.  e.g. 0666
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98           Converts DOS and OS/2 linefeeds to Unix style recursively.
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SEE ALSO

101       Shell::Command which is these same functions but take arguments nor‐
102       mally.
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AUTHOR

105       Nick Ing-Simmons "ni-s@cpan.org"
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107       Currently maintained by Michael G Schwern "schwern@pobox.com".
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