pmdesc - print out version and whatis description of perl modules
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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(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+----------------------------+
|Availability | library/perl-5/pmtools-532 |
+---------------+----------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
pmdesc(1) pminst(1) pmpath(1) pmvers(1)
AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS
Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.
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".
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/ML/MLFISHER/pmtools-2.0.0.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://search.cpan.org/dist/pmtools/.
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