pmdesc - print out version and whatis description of perl modules
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User Contributed Perl Documentation PMDESC(1) NAME pmdesc - print out version and whatis description of perl modules DESCRIPTION Given one or more module names, show the version number (if known) and the `whatis' line, that is, the NAME section's description, typically used for generation whatis databases. EXAMPLES $ pmdesc IO::Socket IO::Socket (1.25) - Object interface to socket communications $ oldperl pmdesc IO::Socket IO::Socket (1.1603) - Object interface to socket communications $ pmdesc `pminst -s | perl -lane 'print $F[1] if $F[0] =~ /site/'` XML::Parser::Expat (2.19) - Lowlevel access to James Clark's expat XML parser XML::Parser (2.19) - A perl module for parsing XML documents RESTRICTIONS This only works on modules. It should also work on filenames, but then it's a bit tricky finding out the package to call the VERSION method on. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+----------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+----------------------------+ |Availability | library/perl-5/pmtools-522 | +---------------+----------------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+----------------------------+ SEE ALSO pmdesc(1) pminst(1) pmpath(1) pmvers(1) AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen. Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Mark Leighton Fisher. 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". NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/ML/MLFISHER/pmtools-1.10.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://search.cpan.org/dist/pmtools/. perl v5.22.1 2008-02-29 PMDESC(1)