pdldoc(1p)

pdldoc1p

Shell interface to pdl documentation

Usage

pdldoc <text>

Overview

The aim of pdldoc is to provide the same functionality as the "apropos", "help", "sig", "badinfo", and "usage" commands available in the perldl shell. It searches for PDL::AutoLoader functions also.

Think of it as the PDL equivalent of "perldoc -f".

Options

-h help

print documentation about a PDL function or module or show a PDL manual. This is the default option.

-a apropos

Regex search PDL documentation database.

-b badinfo

Information on the support for bad values provided by the function.

-s sig

prints signature of PDL function.

-u usage

Prints usage information for a PDL function.

Version

This is pdldoc version 0.3.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 13

-b since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

Doug Burke <burke at ifa dot hawaii dot edu>. Chris Marshall <chm at cpan dot org>.

From pdl 1:2.100-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.