The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a very useful collection of Perl code. It has a whole lot of module distributions. The CPAN::Unpack module unpacks the latest version of each distribution. It places it in a directory of your choice with directories being the name of the distribution.
It requires a local CPAN mirror to run. You can construct one using something similar to:
/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete ftp.nic.funet.fi::CPAN /Users/acme/cpan/CPAN/
Note that a CPAN mirror can take up about 1.5G of space (and will take a while to rsync initially). Additionally, unpacking will use up about another 1.6G.
This can be handy for code metrics, searching CPAN, or just being very nosy indeed.
This uses Parse::CPAN::Packages' latest_distributions method for finding the latest distribution.
SYNOPSIS
use CPAN::Unpack;
my $u = CPAN::Unpack->new;
$u->cpan("path/to/CPAN/");
$u->destination("cpan_unpacked/");
$u->unpack;
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