PMCAT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pmcat(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, bestie — and pmcat is literally just “page through a module file.” That’s the whole gig. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so you give it a module name, it figures out the path name, and then it sends that path straight to the user’s pager. So you can read the module like a good little documentation gremlin. 🦋

$ pmcat CGI

This also works on alternate installed versions of Perl — not just the default one, periodt:

$ oldperl -S pmcat strict

$ filsperl -S pmcat Threads

And ngl, this command is mostly here for people too lazy to type:

$ more `pmpath CGI`

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pmpath(1) — the icon it’s giving little-sibling energy to. 💜

👑 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". 🙈

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mwah 💋 — that’s the whole page, and this cutie is from perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-01-21. 🫶