How do I get a list of installed CPAN modules?

Question

Aside from trying

perldoc <module name>

individually for any CPAN module that takes my fancy or going through the file system and looking at the directories I have no idea what modules we have installed.

What's the easiest way to just get a big list of every CPAN module installed? From the command line or otherwise.

Answer 1

$ for M in `perldoc -t perllocal|grep Module |sed -e 's/^.*" //'`; do V=`perldoc -t perllocal|awk "/$M/{y=1;next}y" |grep VERSION |head -n 1`; printf "%30s %s\n" "$M" "$V"; done |sort
              Class::Inspector     *   "VERSION: 1.28"
                    Crypt::CBC     *   "VERSION: 2.33"
               Crypt::Rijndael     *   "VERSION: 1.11"
                    Data::Dump     *   "VERSION: 1.22"
                   DBD::Oracle     *   "VERSION: 1.68"
                           DBI     *   "VERSION: 1.630"
                   Digest::SHA     *   "VERSION: 5.92"
           ExtUtils::MakeMaker     *   "VERSION: 6.84"
                       install     *   "VERSION: 6.84"
               IO::SessionData     *   "VERSION: 1.03"
               IO::Socket::SSL     *   "VERSION: 2.016"
                          JSON     *   "VERSION: 2.90"
                  MIME::Base64     *   "VERSION: 3.14"
                  MIME::Base64     *   "VERSION: 3.14"
                   Mozilla::CA     *   "VERSION: 20141217"
                   Net::SSLeay     *   "VERSION: 1.68"
                        parent     *   "VERSION: 0.228"
                  REST::Client     *   "VERSION: 271"
                    SOAP::Lite     *   "VERSION: 1.08"
                  Task::Weaken     *   "VERSION: 1.04"
                 Term::ReadKey     *   "VERSION: 2.31"
                Test::Manifest     *   "VERSION: 1.23"
                  Test::Simple     *   "VERSION: 1.001002"
                  Text::CSV_XS     *   "VERSION: 1.16"
                     Try::Tiny     *   "VERSION: 0.22"
                   XML::LibXML     *   "VERSION: 2.0108"
         XML::NamespaceSupport     *   "VERSION: 1.11"
                XML::SAX::Base     *   "VERSION: 1.08"

Answer 2

This is what I do: perl -M{cpan_module}
If you don't receive any errors there is a good chance that the module is installed.

Answer 3

The following worked for me.

$ perldoc perllocal | grep Module
$ perldoc perllocal | grep -E 'VERSION|Module'

Answer 4

Here is yet another command-line tool to list all installed .pm files:

Find installed Perl modules matching a regular expression

• Portable (only uses core modules)
• Cache option for faster look-up's
• Configurable display options

Answer 5

Here's a Perl one-liner that will print out a list of installed modules:

perl -MExtUtils::Installed -MData::Dumper -e  'my ($inst) = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); print Dumper($inst->modules());'

Just make sure you have Data::Dumper installed.

Answer 6

Try man perllocal or perldoc perllocal.