PMAN(1)

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version 2.2.0 · 3 versions
, in epel 9

✨ PMAN(1) — the pman girlie is here 💅

okay so bestie, real talk: this is the manual page for pman, a lil Perl script that shows you a module's man page. it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and honestly? she's iconic for it. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pman — show a module's man page

like, that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly. 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what happens is: pman sends a module's pod through pod2text and then hands it off to your pager. that's the entire pipeline, no cap. 🫶

and ngl, this tool is mostly here for people too lazy to type:

$ pod2text `pmpath CGI` | $PAGER

which, fair. we've all been there. typing is hard. 🙈 so pman just does it for you and slays. ✨

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

here's the vibe check, in code form:

$ pman CGI
$ pman Curses

or, if you're running under different versions of Perl (yes, she's versatile like that 👑):

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

literally just pick your Perl and go. main character energy every single time. 💜

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

go check these out, iykyk:

the whole pod squad fr fr. 🌈

🎀 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS 🎀

the way this page has a whole lineage 😭 give them their flowers:

  • Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
  • Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.

⭐ LICENSE ⭐

so this is free software — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

  1. (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
  2. (b) the Perl "Artistic License".

(this is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.) 🫶

⚠️ bestie, heads up: 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". so like, the licensing glow-up is real. 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie — no notes, she ate. 🍓

🌸 this gem was brought to you by perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-01-21 — catch you on the flip side, PMAN(1) out. 💖✨🧚

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