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#!/usr/bin/env perl
# pman -- show a module's man page
# tchrist@perl.com
BEGIN { $^W = 1 }
BEGIN { die "usage: $0 module ...\n" unless @ARGV }
use FindBin qw($Bin);
$errors = 0;
unless ($pager = $ENV{PAGER}) {
require Config;
$pager = $Config::Config{"pager"} || "more";
}
for $module (@ARGV) {
my $path = `$Bin/pmpath $module`;
if ($?) {
$errors++;
next;
}
chomp $path;
system "pod2text $path | $pager";
$errors += ($? != 1);
}
exit($errors != 0);
__END__
=head1 NAME
pman - show a module's man page
=head1 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
=head1 EXAMPLES
$ pman CGI
$ pman Curses
Or running under different versions of Perl:
$ oldperl -S pman CGI
$ filsperl -S pman Threads
=head1 SEE ALSO
pod2text(1), perlpod(1), pod2man(1), pod2html(1).
=head1 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS
Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Mark Leighton Fisher.
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".
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