podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output


NAME

podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output


SYNOPSIS

podselect [-help] [-man] [-section section-spec] [file ...]


OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

-help
Print a brief help message and exit.

-man
Print the manual page and exit.

-section section-spec
Specify a section to include in the output. See SECTION SPECIFICATIONS in the Pod::Select manpage for the format to use for section-spec. This option may be given multiple times on the command line.

file
The pathname of a file from which to select sections of pod documentation (defaults to standard input).


DESCRIPTION

podselect will read the given input files looking for pod documentation and will print out (in raw pod format) all sections that match one ore more of the given section specifications. If no section specifications are given than all pod sections encountered are output.

podselect invokes the podselect() function exported by Pod::Select Please see podselect() in the Pod::Select manpage for more details.


SEE ALSO

the Pod::Parser manpage and the Pod::Select manpage


AUTHOR

Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>

 podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output