Source: libfile-read-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Damyan Ivanov Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libmodule-build-perl Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libfile-slurp-perl, libtest-pod-perl, libtest-pod-coverage-perl, libtest-distribution-perl, libtest-portability-files-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-read-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-read-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-Read Package: libfile-read-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libfile-slurp-perl Multi-Arch: foreign Description: interface for reading one or more files File::Read mainly proposes functions for reading one or more files, with different options. . This module was created to address a quite specific need: reading many files, some as a normal user and others as root, and eventually do a little more processing, all while being at the same time compatible with Perl 5.004. File::Slurp addresses the first point, but not the others, hence the creation of File::Read. If you don't need reading files as root or the post-processing features, then it's faster to directly use File::Slurp.