pman(1p)

pman1p

Show a module's man page

Overview

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

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

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

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0–3.1
  3. 4.0–5.0
  4. 6.0–7
  5. 8–9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12–13

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".

From pmtools 2.2.0-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.