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

# pman(1p)

show a module's man page

## NAME

pman - show a module's man page

## DESCRIPTION

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
```

## SEE ALSO

[**pod2text**(1)](/pod2text/1.md), [**perlpod**(1)](/perlpod/1.md), [**pod2man**(1)](/pod2man/1.md), [**pod2html**(1)](/pod2html/1.md).

## AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 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".