PODSELECT(1)     Perl Programmers Reference Guide    PODSELECT(1)



NAME
       podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation
       on standard output

SYNOPSIS
       podselect [-help] [-man] [-section section-spec]
       [file ...]

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
       -help   Print a brief help message and exit.

       -man    Print the manual page and exit.

       -section section-spec
               Specify a section to include in the output.  See
               the SECTION SPECIFICATIONS entry in the
               Pod::Parser manpage for the format to use for sec-
               tion-spec.  This option may be given multiple
               times on the command line.

       file    The pathname of a file from which to select sec-
               tions of pod documentation (defaults to standard
               input).

DESCRIPTION
       podselect will read the given input files looking for pod
       documentation and will print out (in raw pod format) all
       sections that match one ore more of the given section
       specifications. If no section specifications are given
       than all pod sections encountered are output.

       podselect invokes the podselect() function exported by
       Pod::Select Please see the podselect() entry in the
       Pod::Select manpage for more details.

SEE ALSO
       the Pod::Parser manpage and the Pod::Select manpage

AUTHOR
       Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

       Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom
       Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>



2002-07-14                 perl v5.6.0               PODSELECT(1)