El comando look abre una shell en el directorio en el que se ha descargado la distribución especificada. Si no se ha descargado la distribución procederá a hacerlo:
nereida:~# cpan CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69) cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102) ReadLine support enabled cpan[1]> look Net::Server Trying to open a subshell in the build directory... Working directory is /root/.cpan/build/Net-Server-0.97-6wI2wN nereida:~/.cpan/build/Net-Server-0.97-6wI2wN# ls -l total 132 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2008-05-09 07:11 blib -rw-r--r-- 1 casiano casiano 21994 2007-07-25 17:17 Changes drwxr-xr-x 2 casiano casiano 4096 2007-07-25 17:23 examples drwxr-xr-x 3 casiano casiano 4096 2007-07-25 17:23 lib -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27741 2008-05-09 07:11 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 casiano casiano 612 2007-02-03 08:18 Makefile.PL -rw-r--r-- 1 casiano casiano 2198 2007-02-03 08:05 MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 1 casiano casiano 97 2007-02-03 08:02 MANIFEST.SKIP -rw-r--r-- 1 casiano casiano 418 2007-07-25 17:23 META.yml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-05-09 07:11 pm_to_blib -rw-r--r-- 1 casiano casiano 47485 2007-02-03 08:19 README drwxr-xr-x 2 casiano casiano 4096 2007-07-25 17:23 t ^D # retornamos a la shell de CPAN
Casiano Rodríguez León