How To Install perl-File-Slurp.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Slurp.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-File-Slurp.noarch is Efficient Reading/Writing of Complete Files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Slurp.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is perl-File-Slurp.noarch

This module provides subs that allow you to read or write entire files with one simple call. They are designed to be simple to use, have flexible ways to pass in or get the file contents and to be very efficient. There is also a sub to read in all the files in a directory other than . and .. These slurp/spew subs work for files, pipes and sockets, and stdio, pseudo-files, and DATA.

We can use yum to install perl-File-Slurp.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-File-Slurp.noarch.

Install perl-File-Slurp.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-File-Slurp.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-File-Slurp.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-File-Slurp.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-File-Slurp.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-File-Slurp.noarch

perl-File-Slurp.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/TODO
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/extras
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/extras/FileSlurp_12.pm
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/extras/slurp_article.pod
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Slurp-9999.19/extras/slurp_bench.pl
/usr/share/man/man3/File::Slurp.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Slurp.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Slurp.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.