BASEPODS(1p)

💅 BASEPODS(1p) — ok so, pod paths, but make it cute

bestie. this is basepods, a lil Perl utility that lives in the 1p manual section, and honestly? it's giving "quiet overachiever." no cap.

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🦋 NAME

basepods — print out pod paths for the standard perl manpages ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so here's the tea. this program goes and peeks at your configuration's installprivlib directory to look up the full paths to those pod pages. 🔍

then — and this is the whole vibe — any files in that directory whose names end in .pod get printed to standard output, one per line. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic.

so why do you care? because this is normally used in backticks, to produce a list of filenames that you hand off to other commands. it's a little pod-path generator that feeds your other tools. 🫶

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

here's the classic:

$ podgrep typeglob `basepods`

and here's the "let me just filter it myself" move:

$ basepods | grep delt
/usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/pod/perl5004delta.pod
/usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/pod/perl5005delta.pod
/usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/pod/perldelta.pod

🎀 alternate perl binaries

you can also run this using alternate perl binaries, like so:

$ oldperl -S basepods | grep delt
/usr/lib/perl5/pod/perldelta.pod

$ podgrep -i thread `filsperl basepods | grep delt`
....

(yes, filsperl. that's the name. we don't question it. 💀)

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👀 SEE ALSO

faqpods(1), modpods(1), pods(1), sitepod(1), podpath(1), and stdpod(1).

the whole pod-adjacent friend group fr fr. go say hi. 🌈

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💖 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.

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📜 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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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-14, and it's page BASEPODS(1p) — slay, ate, no crumbs. bye!! 🎀✨💜