mkselfextract - Creates a self-extracting perl script.
mkselfextract source.pl archive.zip > output.pl mkselfextract --output=output.pl source.pl archive.zip
mkselfextract combines a file containing Perl code and a compressed zip archive into a single file. This file can be run as a Perl program, which as its first action will extract the data in the zip file into a temporary directory.
mkselfextract
To create such a self-extracting script, you can do something like the following:
% zip -r9 distrib.zip src/ doc/ lib/ bin/ % mkselfextract setup-script.pl distrib.zip > setup.pl
mkselfextract supports the following options:
--output
-o
By default, mkselfextract emits the created script on stdout. The --output option tells it to write the script to the given file instead.
--perlbin
-p
If you need to specify the location of the perl binary, you can override the default /usr/bin/perl with this option. This value is used only for the initial #! line in the created script.
perl
/usr/bin/perl
#!
Archive::SelfExtract, perl.
Copyright 2004 Greg Fast (gdf@speakeasy.net)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Archive::SelfExtract, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Archive::SelfExtract
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Archive::SelfExtract
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.