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] 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).
file The pathname of a file containing pod documentation
to be output in usage mesage format (defaults to
standard input).
DESCRIPTION
pod2usage will read the given input file looking for pod
documentation and will print the corresponding usage mes-
sage. 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(1)perl v5.8.8 2006-06-30 1
POD2USAGE(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide POD2USAGE(1)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>
perl v5.8.8 2006-06-30 2