PODSELECT

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)
Updated: 2017-08-16
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NAME

podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output  

SYNOPSIS

podselect [-help] [-man] [-section section-spec] [file ...]  

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

-help

Print a brief help message and exit.

-man

Print the manual page and exit.

-section section-spec

Specify a section to include in the output. See ``SECTION SPECIFICATIONS'' in Pod::Parser for the format to use for section-spec. This option may be given multiple times on the command line.

file

The pathname of a file from which to select sections of pod documentation (defaults to standard input).

 

DESCRIPTION

podselect will read the given input files looking for pod documentation and will print out (in raw pod format) all sections that match one ore more of the given section specifications. If no section specifications are given than all pod sections encountered are output.

podselect invokes the podselect() function exported by Pod::Select Please see ``podselect()'' in Pod::Select for more details.  

SEE ALSO

Pod::Parser and Pod::Select  

AUTHOR

Please report bugs using <http://rt.cpan.org>.

Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>

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