POD2USAGE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation POD2USAGE(1)
NAME
pod2usage - print usage messages from embedded pod docs in files
SYNOPSIS
pod2usage [-help] [-man] [-exit exitval] [-output outfile] [-verbose level] [-pathlist dirlist] [-formatter
module] file
OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
-help Print a brief help message and exit.
-man Print this command's manual page and exit.
-exit exitval
The exit status value to return.
-output outfile
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.
-verbose level
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)
-pathlist dirlist
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).
-formatter module
Which text formatter to use. Default is Pod::Text, or for very old Perl versions Pod::PlainText. An
alternative would be e.g. Pod::Text::Termcap.
file The pathname of a file containing pod documentation to be output in usage message format (defaults to
standard input).
DESCRIPTION
pod2usage will read the given input file looking for pod documentation and will print the corresponding usage
message. If no input file is specified then 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 <[email protected]>
Based on code for pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <[email protected]>
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