POD2USAGE(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide 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] [-utf8] 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.
-utf8 This option assumes that the formatter (see above) understands
the option "utf8". It turns on generation of utf8 output.
file The pathname of a file containing pod documentation to be
output in usage message format. If omitted, standard input is
read - but the output is then formatted with Pod::Text only -
unless a specific formatter has been specified with -formatter.
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, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Termcap, perldoc
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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