Uninstall all perl modules installed by cpan

Question

Yesterday I wanted to test some software and in the documentation it said, to install I just needed to type

cpan -i Software

I never used

Answer 1

You can uninstall individual modules with cpanplus (ships with Perl) like this:

cpanp uninstall SQL::Abstract

You can view all modules installed with the cpan script like this:

perldoc perllocal

Putting the two together:

for module in $(perldoc -u perllocal | grep -F 'C L<' | sed 's/^.*L<\(.*\)|.*>$/\1/') ; do
    cpanp uninstall "$module"
done