< Previous | Contents | Next >
6.40.2. Contents of Perl
Installed programs: corelist, cpan, enc2xs, encguess, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, json_pp, libnetcfg, perl, perl5.30.0 (hard link to perl), perlbug, perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (hard link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep, shasum, splain, xsubpp, and zipdetails
Installed libraries: Many which cannot all be listed here
Installed directory: /usr/lib/perl5
Short Descriptions
corelist A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList
cpan Interact with the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) from the command line
enc2xs Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files
encguess Guess the encoding type of one or several files h2ph Converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files h2xs Converts .h C header files to Perl extensions
instmodsh Shell script for examining installed Perl modules, and can create a tarball from an installed module
json_pp Converts data between certain input and output formats
libnetcfg Can be used to configure the libnet Perl module
perl Combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into a single swiss-army language
perl5.30.0 A hard link to perl
perlbug Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come with it, and mail them
perldoc Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script
perlivp The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed correctly
perlthanks Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl developers
piconv A Perl version of the character encoding converter iconv
pl2pm A rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules
pod2html Converts files from pod format to HTML format pod2man Converts pod data to formatted *roff input pod2text Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text
pod2usage Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files podchecker Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files podselect Displays selected sections of pod documentation
prove Command line tool for running tests against the Test::Harness module
ptar A tar-like program written in Perl
ptardiff A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an unextracted one ptargrep A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive shasum Prints or checks SHA checksums
splain Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl
xsubpp Converts Perl XS code into C code
zipdetails Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file