PDLDOC(1)

💖 PDLDOC(1) — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is PDLDOC from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your manual, and it is genuinely so useful it's not even funny. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pdldoc — a shell interface to PDL documentation 🐚💅

like. it's the front door. the vibe check for PDL docs. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pdldoc <text>

that's it. that's the whole thing. you feed it text and it feeds you knowledge 🍓

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the whole aim of pdldoc — and I need you to hear me on this — is to give you the same functionality as those commands you already know and love from the perldl shell, namely:

• apropos
• help
• sig
• badinfo
• usage

all five. yes. iconic behavior, no notes 👑

and it doesn't stop there, because it also searches for PDL::AutoLoader functions. she's thorough. she's doing the most, in the best way 💅

think of it as the PDL equivalent of perldoc -f. that's the whole energy. that's the pitch. iykyk ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h help — prints documentation about a PDL function or module, or shows you a PDL manual. this one is the default option, so if you just run pdldoc with vibes and no flag, this is what you're getting 🫶
• -a apropos — regex search of the PDL documentation database. go wild with your patterns, bestie 🔍
• -b badinfo — gives you the info on the support for bad values provided by the function. yes, that's really what it's called. no, I'm not joking 🙈
• -s sig — prints the signature of a PDL function 📝
• -u usage — prints the usage information for a PDL function 🧚

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

this is pdldoc version 0.3. small number, big energy 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Doug Burke <burke at ifa dot hawaii dot edu>
• Chris Marshall <chm at cpan dot org>

two legends. we stan 💜

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and that's the whole page, babe — this one shipped with perl v5.42.0 and was dated 2025-07-25, so if you ever need to cite your sources, that's the tea 🍵✨ mwah, go read some PDL docs 💖