pod2usage - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
pod2usage - print usage messages from embedded pod docs in files
SYNOPSIS
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pod2usage
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[-help]
[-man]
[-exit exitval]
[-output outfile]
[-verbose level]
[-pathlist dirlist]
file
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OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
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-help
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Print a brief help message and exit.
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-man
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Print this command’s manual page and exit.
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-exit exitval
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The exit status value to return.
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-output outfile
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The output file to print to. If the special names - or >&1 or >&STDOUT
are used then standard output is used. If >&2 or >&STDERR is used then
standard error is used.
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-verbose level
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The desired level of verbosity to use:
1 : print SYNOPSIS only
2 : print SYNOPSIS sections and any OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS sections
3 : print the entire manpage (similar to running pod2text)
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-pathlist dirlist
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Specifies one or more directories to search for the input file if it
was not supplied with an absolute path. Each directory path in the given
list should be separated by a ’:’ on Unix (’;’ on MSWin32 and DOS).
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file
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The pathname of a file containing pod documentation to be output in
usage mesage format (defaults to standard input).
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DESCRIPTION
pod2usage will read the given input file looking for pod
documentation and will print the corresponding usage message.
If no input file is specifed than standard input is read.
pod2usage invokes the pod2usage() function in the Pod::Usage
module. Please see pod2usage() in Pod::Usage.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Usage,
pod2text(1)
AUTHOR
Please report bugs using <
http://rt.cpan.org>.
Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>
Based on code for pod2text(1) written by
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
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