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PROGRAM:
NAME
perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
SYNOPSIS
perldoc [-h] [-D] [-t] [-u] [-m] [-l] [-F]
[-i] [-V] [-T] [-r]
[-d destination_file]
[-o formatname]
[-M FormatterClassName]
[-w formatteroption:value]
[-n nroff-replacement]
[-X]
[-L language_code]
PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName|URL
Examples:
perldoc -f BuiltinFunction
perldoc -L it -f BuiltinFunction
perldoc -q FAQ Keyword
perldoc -L fr -q FAQ Keyword
perldoc -v PerlVariable
perldoc -a PerlAPI
See below for more description of the switches.
DESCRIPTION
perldoc 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 "groff -man | $PAGER". (In
addition, if running under HP-UX, "col -x" will be used.) This is primarily used for the
documentation for the perl library modules.
Your system may also have man pages installed for those modules, in which case you can
probably just use the man(1) command.
If you are looking for a table of contents to the Perl library modules documentation, see
the perltoc page.
OPTIONS
-h Prints out a brief help message.
-D Describes search for the item in detail.
-t Display docs using plain text converter, instead of nroff. This may be faster, but it
probably won't look as nice.
-u Skip the real Pod formatting, and just show the raw Pod source (Unformatted)
-m module
Display the entire module: both code and unformatted pod documentation. This may be
useful if the docs don't explain a function in the detail you need, and you'd like to
inspect the code directly; perldoc will find the file for you and simply hand it off
for display.
-l Display only the file name of the module found.
-F Consider arguments as file names; no search in directories will be performed.
-f perlfunc
The -f option followed by the name of a perl built-in function will extract the
documentation of this function from perlfunc.
Example:
perldoc -f sprintf
-q perlfaq-search-regexp
The -q option takes a regular expression as an argument. It will search the question
headings in perlfaq[1-9] and print the entries matching the regular expression.
Example:
perldoc -q shuffle
-a perlapifunc
The -a option followed by the name of a perl api function will extract the
documentation of this function from perlapi.
Example:
perldoc -a newHV
-v perlvar
The -v option followed by the name of a Perl predefined variable will extract the
documentation of this variable from perlvar.
Examples:
perldoc -v '$"'
perldoc -v @+
perldoc -v DATA
-T This specifies that the output is not to be sent to a pager, but is to be sent
directly to STDOUT.
-d destination-filename
This specifies that the output is to be sent neither to a pager nor to STDOUT, but is
to be saved to the specified filename. Example: "perldoc -oLaTeX -dtextwrapdocs.tex
Text::Wrap"
-o output-formatname
This specifies that you want Perldoc to try using a Pod-formatting class for the
output format that you specify. For example: "-oman". This is actually just a
wrapper around the "-M" switch; using "-oformatname" just looks for a loadable class
by adding that format name (with different capitalizations) to the end of different
classname prefixes.
For example, "-oLaTeX" currently tries all of the following classes:
Pod::Perldoc::ToLaTeX Pod::Perldoc::Tolatex Pod::Perldoc::ToLatex
Pod::Perldoc::ToLATEX Pod::Simple::LaTeX Pod::Simple::latex Pod::Simple::Latex
Pod::Simple::LATEX Pod::LaTeX Pod::latex Pod::Latex Pod::LATEX.
-M module-name
This specifies the module that you want to try using for formatting the pod. The
class must at least provide a "parse_from_file" method. For example: "perldoc
-MPod::Perldoc::ToChecker".
You can specify several classes to try by joining them with commas or semicolons, as
in "-MTk::SuperPod;Tk::Pod".
-w option:value or -w option
This specifies an option to call the formatter with. For example, "-w textsize:15"
will call "$formatter->textsize(15)" on the formatter object before it is used to
format the object. For this to be valid, the formatter class must provide such a
method, and the value you pass should be valid. (So if "textsize" expects an
integer, and you do "-w textsize:big", expect trouble.)
You can use "-w optionname" (without a value) as shorthand for "-w optionname:TRUE".
This is presumably useful in cases of on/off features like: "-w page_numbering".
You can use an "=" instead of the ":", as in: "-w textsize=15". This might be more
(or less) convenient, depending on what shell you use.
-X Use an index if it is present. The -X option looks for an entry whose basename
matches the name given on the command line in the file "$Config{archlib}/pod.idx".
The pod.idx file should contain fully qualified filenames, one per line.
-L language_code
This allows one to specify the language code for the desired language translation. If
the "POD2::<language_code>" package isn't installed in your system, the switch is
ignored. All available translation packages are to be found under the "POD2::"
namespace. See POD2::IT (or POD2::FR) to see how to create new localized "POD2::*"
documentation packages and integrate them into Pod::Perldoc.
PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName|URL
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". For URLs, HTTP and HTTPS are the
only kind currently supported.
For simple names like 'foo', when the normal search fails to find a matching page, a
search with the "perl" prefix is tried as well. So "perldoc intro" is enough to
find/render "perlintro.pod".
-n some-formatter
Specify replacement for groff
-r Recursive search.
-i Ignore case.
-V Displays the version of perldoc you're running.
SECURITY
Because perldoc does not run properly tainted, and is known to have security issues, when
run as the superuser it will attempt to drop privileges by setting the effective and real
IDs to nobody's or nouser's account, or -2 if unavailable. If it cannot relinquish its
privileges, it will not run.
ENVIRONMENT
Any switches in the "PERLDOC" environment variable will be used before the command line
arguments.
Useful values for "PERLDOC" include "-oterm", "-otext", "-ortf", "-oxml", and so on,
depending on what modules you have on hand; or the formatter class may be specified
exactly with "-MPod::Perldoc::ToTerm" or the like.
"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.)
In directories where either "Makefile.PL" or "Build.PL" exist, "perldoc" will add "." and
"lib" first to its search path, and as long as you're not the superuser will add "blib"
too. This is really helpful if you're working inside of a build directory and want to
read through the docs even if you have a version of a module previously installed.
"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.)
When using perldoc in it's "-m" mode (display module source code), "perldoc" will attempt
to use the pager set in "PERLDOC_SRC_PAGER". A useful setting for this command is your
favorite editor as in "/usr/bin/nano". (Don't judge me.)
One useful value for "PERLDOC_PAGER" is "less -+C -E".
Having PERLDOCDEBUG set to a positive integer will make perldoc emit even more descriptive
output than the "-D" switch does; the higher the number, the more it emits.
CHANGES
Up to 3.14_05, the switch -v was used to produce verbose messages of perldoc operation,
which is now enabled by -D.
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