PDLDOC(1p)

🎀 pdldoc — the shell glow-up for PDL docs

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's literally called pdldoc (section 1p, iykyk). It's your little shell-side bestie for everything PDL documentation. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

pdldoc — it's a shell interface to PDL documentation. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pdldoc <text>

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea: the whole aim of pdldoc is to give you the exact same functionality as the apropos, help, sig, badinfo, and usage commands you'd get inside the perldl shell. and not only that — it searches for PDL::AutoLoader functions too. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

think of it as the PDL equivalent of perldoc -f. literally that. no cap. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h help — prints the documentation for a PDL function or module, or shows you a PDL manual. this one is the default option, so if you don't say anything, she assumes you want help. main character energy fr fr 🫶
• -a apropos — does a regex search through the PDL documentation database. go hunting, bestie. 🔍
• -b badinfo — gives you the info on the support for bad values that the function provides. that's the bad-value scoop, not a bad-vibes scoop. 💀
• -s sig — prints the signature of a PDL function. 💅
• -u usage — prints the usage information for a PDL function. yes, usage. exactly what it says. 🌸

✨ VERSION ✨

this is pdldoc version 0.3. she's little, she's baby, she's doing her best. 🧚

✨ AUTHOR ✨

the absolute legends behind this:

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

we stan. 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! ⭐ to sign off properly: this was rendered from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, from the PDLDOC(1p) page. periodt. 💜