PMCAT(1p)

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version 2.2.0 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 NAME 💖

pmcat — okay bestie, this one is literally just page through a module file. That's it. That's the whole job. She's simple, she's iconic, she slays. ✨

She's a Perl script, part of the user-contributed Perl docs situation (that's the <pink>1p</pink> in her name, iykyk 🎀).

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, fr fr: you hand her a module name, she figures out the path name for you, and then she yeets that path straight to your pager. No thinking required. 💅

$ pmcat CGI

And the way that she's built means she also works on alternate installed versions of Perl, which is genuinely so useful, no cap:

$ oldperl -S pmcat strict
$ filsperl -S pmcat Threads

Lowkey, this command exists mostly for people who are too lazy to type:

$ more `pmpath CGI`

...and honestly? Respect. We've all been there. 🙈 Sometimes you just want the shortcut and you want it now. Main character energy. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • pmpath(1) — the other half of this duo, go say hi 🫶

🎀 AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS 🎀

Giving credit where credit is due, periodt:

  • Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen. ⭐
  • Copyright (C) 2006-2014 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.) 💜

Heads up bestie, this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (which is still available on CPAN) — because pmtools-1.00 was licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License". So like, know the difference. ✨

Signing off from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-14, page PMCAT(1p) — mwah, go page through something cute 💋🌸

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