PMDESC

NAME

SYNOPSIS

pmdesc [-h]

pmdesc [-s] [-t ddd] [-v dd] [--] [dir [dir [dir [...]]]]

pmdesc [-s] [-d] [--] [dir [dir [dir [...]]]]

DESCRIPTION

Find name, version and description of all installed Perl modules and PODs. If no directories given, searches @INC . The first column of the output (see below) can be used as module name or FAQ-name for perldoc.

Some modules are split into a pm-file and an accompanying pod-file. The version number is always taken from the pm-file.

The description found will be cut down to a length of at most 150 characters (prevents slurping in big amount of faulty docs).  

Output

:
:
IO::Socket         (1.28)  Object interface to socket communications            /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
IO::Socket::INET   (1.27)  Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets          /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
IO::Socket::UNIX   (1.21)  Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets          /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
IO::Stty           (n/a)   <description not available>                          /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
IO::Tty            (1.02)  Low-level allocate a pseudo-Tty, import constants.   /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
IO::Tty::Constant  (n/a)   Terminal Constants (autogenerated)                   /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
:
:

The three parts module name, version and description are separated by at least one blank.

OPTIONS

-h

print help message; show search path

-s

sort output (not under Windows)

-d

csv output

-t ddd

name column has width ddd (1-3 digits); default 52

-v dd

version column has width dd (1-2 digits); default 16

REQUIREMENTS

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There are no known bugs in this module.

Please report problems to Fritz Mehner, mehner@fh-swf.de .

AUTHORS

Tom Christiansen, tchrist@perl.com (pmdesc)
Aristotle, http://qs321.pair.com/~monkads/ (pmdesc2)
Fritz Mehner, mehner@fh-swf.de (pmdesc3.pl)

SEE ALSO

NOTES

pmdesc2 is based on pmdesc (Perl Cookbook, 1. Ed., recipe 12.19). pmdesc2 is at least one magnitude faster than pmdesc.

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