pmtools a handy set of Perl module specific command line tools
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I recently discovered a very useful set of Perl command line tools. I hope you find these as useful as I have.
- pmall
- show all installed versions and descs
- pman
- show a module's man page
- pmcat
- page through a module file
- pmdesc
- print out version and whatis description of perl modules
- pmdirs
- print out module directories
- pmeth
- show a Perl class's methods
- pmexp
- show a module's exports
- pmfunc
- cat out a function from a module
- pminst
- find modules whose names match this pattern
- pmload
- show what files a given module loads at compile time
- pmls
- long list the module path
- pmpath
- show full path to a perl module
- pmvers
- print out a module's version
- podgrep
- grep in pod sections only
- podpath
- print the path to the pod
- pods
- print out all pod paths
- podtoc
- show outline of pods
More info:
- CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/pmtools
- Debian/Ubuntu: aptitude install pmtools
- RPM: peeps: yum install pmtools