This directory contains sample scripts. Specifically:
README - This file.
corpus - Given a CPAN ID, list the distributions by that author.
cpan-adhoc - An interactive script to obtain information about CPAN
modules and distributions.
dist-extensions - List all file name extensions found on distributions
in CPAN.
grep-distributions - Find all indexed distributions that match one or
more regular expressions given on the command line.
grep-modules - List all indexed modules that match one or more regular
expressions given on the command line.
mod-dep - List all dependencies of the given module or modules.
Optionally takes installed modules into account.
mod-dist - Say what distribution a given module is in.
mod-doc - Display the documentation for the distribution containing the
given module in your web browser.
In all the above scripts, you can get the documentation with the --help
option.