PMAN(1p)

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, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 PMAN(1p) 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and this little cutie is called pman (the 1p is giving "section 1, Perl" energy, iykyk). let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pman — show a module's man page 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically? pman takes a module's pod and sends it straight through pod2text and into your pager. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

ngl it's mostly here for the girlies who are too lazy to type:

$ pod2text `pmpath CGI` | $PAGER

like… yeah. no cap. that's a lot of typing for one little man page. pman said "not me doing all that" 🙈

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

here's the basic slay:

$ pman CGI
$ pman Curses

and if you're running under different versions of Perl, you can do this too:

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

main character energy, both of them. ✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these too, they're iconic:

👑 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS 👑

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.

💜 LICENSE 💜

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

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

(this is the Perl 5 licensing scheme, bestie. that's the vibe.)

⚠️ okay heads up though: please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (which is still available on CPAN), because pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License". so like. that's different now. just so you know. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-14, and it lives at PMAN(1p) in the manual. go read some pods, you deserve it. 💖✨🎀🦋

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