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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 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.

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

NOT

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

For that use Shell::Command.

Filenames with * and ? will be glob expanded.

• 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

• 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

Currently maintained by Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com .