cpancover(1p)

cpancover1p

Report coverage statistics on cpan modules

Usage

cpancover --help --info --version --collect --redo_cpancover_html --redo_html --force --dryrun --modules module_name --results_dir /path/to/dir --outputdir /path/to/dir --outputfile filename.html --report report_name --generate_html --compress_old_versions number_to_keep --local --local_build

Version

version 1.52

Overview

Options

The following command line options are supported:

  -h --help               - show help
  -i --info               - show documentation
  -v --version            - show version
  --collect               - collect coverage from modules       (on)
  --compress_old_versions - compress data older than n versions (3)
  --directory             - location of the modules             ($cwd)
  --dryrun                - don't execute (for some commands)   (off)
  --force                 - recollect coverage                  (off)
  --generate_html         - generate html                       (off)
  --local                 - use local (uninstalled) code        (off)
  --local_build           - build coveraage for all the modules (off)
  --modules               - modules to use                      (all in $dir)
  --outputdir             - where to store output               ($directory)
  --outputfile            - top level index                     (coverage.html)
  --redo_cpancover_html   - don't set default modules           (off)
  --redo_html             - force html generation for modules   (off)
  --report                - report to use                       (html_basic)

Details

Requirements

Collect coverage for results and create html, csv and json output.

The modules Template and Parallel::Iterator are required.

Exit status

The following exit values are returned:

0

All operations were completed successfully.

>0

An error occurred.

Licence

Copyright 2002-2026, Paul Johnson ([email protected])

This software is free. It is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.

The latest version of this software should be available from my homepage: https://pjcj.net

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

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