pman - Man Page

show a module's man page

Description

Send a module's pod through pod2text and your pager.

This is mostly here for people too lazy to type

    $ pod2text `pmpath CGI` | $PAGER

Examples

    $ pman CGI
    $ pman Curses

Or running under different versions of Perl:

    $ oldperl -S pman CGI
    $ filsperl -S pman Threads

See Also

pod2text(1), perlpod(1), pod2man(1), pod2html(1).

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.

License

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".

Info

2024-01-25 perl v5.38.2 User Contributed Perl Documentation