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PERLDOC(1)                            Perl Programmers Reference Guide                            PERLDOC(1)



NAME
       perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.

SYNOPSIS
       perldoc [-h] [-D] [-t] [-u] [-m] [-l] [-F] [-i] [-V] [-T] [-r] [-ddestination_file] [-oformatname]
       [-MFormatterClassName] [-wformatteroption:value] [-nnroff-replacement] [-X] [-L language_code]
       PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName

       perldoc -f BuiltinFunction

       perldoc -L it -f BuiltinFunction

       perldoc -q FAQ Keyword

       perldoc -L fr -q FAQ Keyword

       perldoc -v PerlVariable

       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 "pod2man | nroff -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

       -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 right 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 a "=" 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 to specify the language code for desired language translation.  If
            "POD2::<language_code>" package doesn't exist (or isn't installed in your system), the switch
            will be ignored.  All available translation packages should be found under the "POD2::"
            namespace. See POD2::IT (or POD2::FR) in order to see how to create and integrate new localized
            "POD2::*" pod documentation packages in Pod::Perldoc.

       PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName
            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 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 nroff

       -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 "-oman", "-otext", "-otk", "-ortf", "-oxml", and so on, depending
       on what modules you have on hand; or exactly specify the formatter class with "-MPod::Perldoc::ToMan"
       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.)

       "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.)

       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 "-v" 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.

SEE ALSO
       perlpod, Pod::Perldoc

AUTHOR
       Current maintainer: Adriano R. Ferreira <ferreira@cpan.org>

       Past contributors are: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>, Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Andy
       Dougherty  <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>, and many others.



perl v5.12.5                                     2012-11-03                                       PERLDOC(1)