Lauren wrote: >there is another member on this list pointed me a more graceful way,
use lib '/path/..'; That's a good one, too - note, you do want to use an absolute path in there (and elsewhere) if you're writing this in a script. Something folks often misunderstand is that the script is run relative to the current dir, not the dir where the script resides. That is, I keep my scripts in /usr/local/bin, so if I have a /home/andy/perl_lib full of my modules, I'd want to use lib '/home/andy/perl_lib'; In the previous command line examples: $ cd /home/andy $ perl -e 'use test::mytest; mytest::hello()' hello $ cd /tmp $ perl -e 'use test::mytest; mytest::hello()' Can't locate test/mytest.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /gov/ecf/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux /gov/ecf/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /gov/ecf/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux /gov/ecf/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /gov/ecf/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. though the absolute path works $ cd /tmp $ perl -e 'use lib "/home/andy/test"; use test::mytest; mytest::hello()' hello In the spirit of Perl's TMTOWTDI, if you have your own set of modules somewhere, you can set an ENV var PERL5LIB $ cd /tmp $ PERL5LIB=/home/andytest perl -e 'use test::mytest; mytest::hello()' hello put that in your .bashrc file and all your modules will be available. Remember though, cron jobs don't get your .bashrc env. On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 July 2018 at 05:21, Andy Bach <afb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > or, as Perl treats the "::" as a path denoter: > > $ perl -e 'use test::mytest; mytest::hello()' > > hello > > > > or: > > $ perl -mtest::mytest -e 'mytest::hello()' > > hello > > > > find ./test/mytest.pm via @INC's "." > > > Note: neither of those examples work on Perl 5.26 or greater, as those > examples rely on "." being in @INC, which it no longer is. > > To resolve, your examples either need a "-I." in them, or > alternatively, just use that format and call it like: > > perl -Itest -Mmytest -e "mytest::hello()" > > ( There's a workaround available that globally returns '.' to @INC, > but its gonna be gone in 5.30 or so ) > > > -- > Kent > > KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL > -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
