ukhas jean wrote:

> Hello All,
>  
> Gurus, sorry i have a newbie question ...

I got 4 copies of this post - just post to the list with no CCs.

> 1. Could any body tell me what does options "-MCPAN" and "-eshell" mean
> in the below code ...
>  
> "perl -MCPAN -eshell\n",
>         "       install DBI\n";

If you read your Perl docs (perlrun), -M is used to include a module (analogous
to use function.  -e is used to execute the arg as an input line.

> I believe the Author is trying to install the DBI module from CPAN. But
> what does these 2 options mean???
>  
> Any suggestions/advises will be very much appreciated. Is there some
> documentation for the "options" ; so that I can lookup to get the entire
> list of options???

If you're using Activestate Perl, I'd use PPM wherever possible and not
have to deal with CPAN installs (esp. on Win32).

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