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  --version|-V       visitcpan program version
 
  --                 indicates the end of options for visitcpan

=head1 EXAMPLES

   # count number of distributiosn in the minicpan
   $ visitcpan | wc -l
 
   # get a listing of all distributions using Build.PL
   $ visitcpan -q -a dist -o listing.txt -e 'say shift if -f "Build.PL"'
 
   # run a program against each distribution
   $ visitcpan -q -- ack -a 'use version;'

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<CPAN::Mini::Extract> creates a minicpan with archives extracted.  Analyzing
an extracted tree will be faster than C<<< visitcpan >>>, but the tree will take
up substantially more space on disk.