ExtUtils::Command

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
  • FUNCTIONS
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR

NAME

ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.

SYNOPSIS

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat files... > destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mv source... destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cp source... destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e touch files...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_f files...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_rf directories...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath directories...
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e eqtime source destination
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e test_f file
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e test_d directory
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod mode files...
...

DESCRIPTION

The module is used to replace common UNIX commands. In all cases the functions work from @ARGV rather than taking arguments. This makes them easier to deal with in Makefiles. Call them like this:

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e some_command some files to work on

and NOT like this:

perl -MExtUtils::Command -e 'some_command qw(some files to work on)'

For that use Shell::Command.

Filenames with * and ? will be glob expanded.

FUNCTIONS

• cat

  cat file ...
  

  Concatenates all files mentioned on command line to STDOUT.

• eqtime

  eqtime source destination
  

  Sets modified time of destination to that of source.

• rm_rf

  rm_rf files or directories ...
  

  Removes files and directories - recursively (even if readonly)

• rm_f

  rm_f file ...
  

  Removes files (even if readonly)

• touch

  touch file ...
  

  Makes files exist, with current timestamp

• mv

  mv source_file destination_file
  mv source_file source_file destination_dir
  

  Moves source to destination. Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory.

  Returns true if all moves succeeded, false otherwise.

• cp

  cp source_file destination_file
  cp source_file source_file destination_dir
  

  Copies sources to the destination. Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory.

  Returns true if all copies succeeded, false otherwise.

• chmod

  chmod mode files ...
  

  Sets UNIX like permissions 'mode' on all the files. e.g. 0666

• mkpath

  mkpath directory ...
  

  Creates directories, including any parent directories.

• test_f

  test_f file
  

  Tests if a file exists. Exits with 0 if it does, 1 if it does not (ie. shell's idea of true and false).

• test_d

  test_d directory
  

  Tests if a directory exists. Exits with 0 if it does, 1 if it does not (ie. shell's idea of true and false).

• dos2unix

  dos2unix files or dirs ...
  

  Converts DOS and OS/2 linefeeds to Unix style recursively.

SEE ALSO

Shell::Command which is these same functions but take arguments normally.

AUTHOR

Nick Ing-Simmons ni-s@cpan.org

Maintained by Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com within the ExtUtils-MakeMaker package and, as a separate CPAN package, by Randy Kobes r.kobes@uwinnipeg.ca .