PMDESC(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PMDESC(1)NAMEpmdesc - 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.
SEE ALSOpmdesc(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".
perl v5.14.0 2011-06-17 PMDESC(1)
