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- perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in pod format.
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- _p_e_r_l_d_o_c looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is embedded
- in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays it via
- pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER. (In addition, if running under HP-UX, col
- -x will be used.) This is primarily used for the documentation for the
- perl library modules.
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- Your system may also have man pages installed for those modules, in which
- case you can probably just use the _m_a_n(1) command.
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- ----hhhh help
- Prints out a brief help message.
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- ----vvvv verbose
- Describes search for the item in detail.
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- ----tttt text output
- Display docs using plain text converter, instead of nroff. This may
- be faster, but it won't look as nice.
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- ----uuuu unformatted
- Find docs only; skip reformatting by pod2*
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- ----mmmm module
- Display the entire module: both code and unformatted pod
- documentation. This may be useful if the docs don't explain a
- function in the detail you need, and you'd like to inspect the code
- directly; perldoc will find the file for you and simply hand it off
- for display.
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- ----llll file name only
- Display the file name of the module found.
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- ----FFFF file names
- Consider arguments as file names, no search in directories will be
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- ----ffff perlfunc
- The ----ffff option followed by the name of a perl built in function will
- extract the documentation of this function from the _p_e_r_l_f_u_n_c
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- ----qqqq perlfaq
- The ----qqqq option takes a regular expression as an argument. It will
- search the question headings in perlfaq[1-9] and print the entries
- matching the regular expression.
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- ----XXXX use an index if present
- The ----XXXX option looks for a entry whose basename matches the name
- given on the command line in the file $Config{archlib}/pod.idx. The
- pod.idx file should contain fully qualified filenames, one per line.
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- The item you want to look up. Nested modules (such as
- File::Basename) are specified either as File::Basename or
- File/Basename. You may also give a descriptive name of a page, such
- as perlfunc. You make also give a partial or wrong-case name, such
- as "basename" for "File::Basename", but this will be slower, if
- there is more then one page with the same partial name, you will
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- Any switches in the PERLDOC environment variable will be used before the
- command line arguments. perldoc also searches directories specified by
- the PERL5LIB (or PERLLIB if PERL5LIB is not defined) and PATH environment
- variables. (The latter is so that embedded pods for executables, such as
- perldoc itself, are available.) perldoc will use, in order of
- preference, the pager defined in PERLDOC_PAGER, MANPAGER, or PAGER before
- trying to find a pager on its own. (MANPAGER is not used if perldoc was
- told to display plain text or unformatted pod.)
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- Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
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- Minor updates by Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
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