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PODSELECT(1)                          Perl Programmers Reference Guide                          PODSELECT(1)



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 Pod::Parser 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 stan-dard standard
               dard 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 pdeet) function exported by Pod::Select Please see "podselect()" in
       Pod::Select for more details.

SEE ALSO
       Pod::Parser and Pod::Select

AUTHOR
       Please report bugs using <http://rt.cpan.org.

       Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

       Based on code for Pd:et:o2et(1) written by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>



perl v5.8.8                                      2007-09-23                                     PODSELECT(1)