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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

pod2man

Synopsis

pod2man [options] inputfile
                     

Translates pod directives in file inputfile to Unix manpage format. Converts pod-tagged text to nroff source that can be viewed by the man command, or troff for typesetting.

Options

--center= string

Sets centered header to string. Defaults to “User Contributed Perl Documentation” unless -\-official flag is set, in which case it defaults to “Perl Programmers Reference Guide.”

--date= string

Sets left-hand footer string to date.

--fixed= font

Specifies the fixed-width font to use for code examples.

--lax

If set, ignores missing sections.

--official

If set, uses default header as shown for -\-center above.

--release= rel

Sets centered footer. Defaults to current Perl release.

--section= manext

Sets manpage section for nroff .TH macro. Default is 3 (functions) if filename ends in .pm; otherwise 1 (user commands).

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