Perl in a Nutshell

Name

pod2text

Synopsis

pod2text < input

Description

Translates pod to text and displays it. A wrapper around the Pod::Text module.

Options

--help

Displays help information

--htmlroot=name

Sets base URL for the HTML files to name.

--index

Generates index at top of the HTML file (default).

--infile=name

Converts pod file name. Default is to take input from STDIN.

--libpods=name:...:name

List of page names (e.g., “perlfunc”) that contain linkable =items.

--outfile=name

Creates HTML file name. Default is to send output to STDOUT.

--podroot=name

Uses name as base directory for finding library pods.

--podpath=name:...:name

List of podroot subdirectories with pod files whose HTML-converted forms can be linked to in cross-references.

--netscape

Uses Netscape HTML directives when applicable.

--noindex

Does not generate index at top of the HTML file.

--nonetscape

Does not use Netscape HTML directives (default).

--norecurse

Does not recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath.

--recurse

Recurses into subdirectories specified in podpath (default).

--title=title

Specifies title for the resulting HTML file.

--verbose

Displays progress messages.