---
name: "modpods"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "pmtools"
version: "2.2.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/modpods"
---

# modpods(1p)

print out paths for the standard modules

## NAME

modpods - print out paths for the standard modules

## DESCRIPTION

This program outputs the paths to all installed modules on your systems. This includes both the standard modules (which the *stdpods* command produces) and the site-specific ones (which the *sitepods* command produces).

This is just a front-end for calling *pminst -l*, supplied to make it more obvious what it does.

## EXAMPLE

This finds all the modules whose documentation mentions destructors, and cats it out at you.

```
    $ podgrep -i destructor `modpods`
    =head1 /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/DB_File.pm chunk 371
    Having read L<perltie> you will probably have already guessed that the
    error is caused by the extra copy of the tied object stored in C<$X>.
    If you haven't, then the problem boils down to the fact that the
    B<DB_File> destructor, DESTROY, will not be called until I<all>
    references to the tied object are destroyed. Both the tied variable,
    C<%x>, and C<$X> above hold a reference to the object. The call to
    untie() will destroy the first, but C<$X> still holds a valid
    reference, so the destructor will not get called and the database file
    F<tst.fil> will remain open. The fact that Berkeley DB then reports the
    attempt to open a database that is alreday open via the catch-all
    "Invalid argument" doesn't help.
    =head1 /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/Tie/Array.pm chunk 40
    Normal object destructor method.
```

## SEE ALSO

**podgrep**(1), **modpods**(1), **pods**(1), **sitepods**(1), **podpath**(1), and **stdpod**(1).

## AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.

## LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".