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An Acronym for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

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A vast collection of Free Perl software and documentation. If you're a Perl programmer, you're the kid and CPAN is the candy store. See the CPAN main page for more info and lots of sweets.

Quickest way to use CPAN to get modules is like this
perl -MCPAN -e "shell"