---
name: "basepods"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "pmtools"
version: "2.2.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/basepods"
---

# basepods(1p)

print out pod paths for the standard perl manpages

## NAME

basepods - print out pod paths for the standard perl manpages

## DESCRIPTION

This program uses your configuration's `"installprivlib"` directory to look up the full paths to those pod pages.  Any files in that directory whose names end in `".pod"` will be printed to the standard output, one per line.  This is normally used in backticks to produce a list of filenames for other commands.

## EXAMPLES

```
    $ podgrep typeglob `basepods`
    $ basepods | grep delt
    /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/pod/perl5004delta.pod
    /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/pod/perl5005delta.pod
    /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/pod/perldelta.pod
```

You can also run this using alternate perl binaries, like so:

```
    $ oldperl -S basepods | grep delt
    /usr/lib/perl5/pod/perldelta.pod
    $ podgrep -i thread `filsperl basepods | grep delt`
    ....
```

## SEE ALSO

**faqpods**(1), **modpods**(1), **pods**(1), **sitepod**(1), **podpath**(1), and **stdpod**(1).

## AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen. Copyright (C) 2006-2014 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".