pman (1) - Linux Manuals

pman: show a module's man page

NAME

pman - show a module's man page

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

EXAMPLES

    $ pman CGI
    $ pman Curses

Or running under different versions of Perl:

    $ oldperl -S pman CGI
    $ filsperl -S pman Threads

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.

LICENSE

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''.