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Nitro
Nitro

Reputation: 1293

Perl library path/s

I need to find the location of my perl library/libraries how can I do this? Something similar to what this gives you for python...

python -c "import sys; print sys.path"

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 623

Answers (3)

user3967089
user3967089

Reputation:

List all places where modules will be looked for: perl -E 'say for @INC'

List all the actual files modules have been loaded from: perl -E 'say for keys %INC'

Upvotes: 2

Miguel Prz
Miguel Prz

Reputation: 13792

print the contents of the @INC variable:

perl -e 'print "@INC\n";'

@INC contains all the paths that Perl will search to find a module.

Upvotes: 1

Miller
Miller

Reputation: 35198

The physical location of loaded modules are in the %INC hash:

  • %INC

    The hash %INC contains entries for each filename included via the do, require, or use operators. The key is the filename you specified (with module names converted to pathnames), and the value is the location of the file found. The require operator uses this hash to determine whether a particular file has already been included.

    If the file was loaded via a hook (e.g. a subroutine reference, see require for a description of these hooks), this hook is by default inserted into %INC in place of a filename. Note, however, that the hook may have set the %INC entry by itself to provide some more specific info.

Usage demonstrated for a random module on my system:

$ perl -MFile::Slurp -e 'print $INC{"File/Slurp.pm"}'
/Users/miller/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.0/lib/site_perl/5.20.0/File/Slurp.pm

Upvotes: 2

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