Path::FindDev This package is mostly a glue layer around "Path::IsDev" with a few directory walking tricks. use Path::FindDev qw( find_dev ); if ( my $root = find_dev('/some/path/to/something/somewhere')) { print "development root = $root"; } else { print "No development root :("; } INSTALLATION This is a Perl module distribution. It should be installed with whichever tool you use to manage your installation of Perl, e.g. any of cpanm . cpan . cpanp -i . Consult http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html for further instruction. Should you wish to install this module manually, the procedure is perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.