PODSELECT
Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)
Updated: 2010-10-12
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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>