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2NAME
3    pod2usage - print usage messages from embedded pod docs in files
4
5SYNOPSIS
6    pod2usage   [-help] [-man] [-exit *exitval*] [-output *outfile*]
7                [-verbose *level*] [-pathlist *dirlist*] *file*
8
9OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
10    -help   Print a brief help message and exit.
11
12    -man    Print this command's manual page and exit.
13
14    -exit *exitval*
15            The exit status value to return.
16
17    -output *outfile*
18            The output file to print to. If the special names "-" or ">&1"
19            or ">&STDOUT" are used then standard output is used. If ">&2" or
20            ">&STDERR" is used then standard error is used.
21
22    -verbose *level*
23            The desired level of verbosity to use:
24
25                1 : print SYNOPSIS only
26                2 : print SYNOPSIS sections and any OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS sections
27                3 : print the entire manpage (similar to running pod2text)
28
29    -pathlist *dirlist*
30            Specifies one or more directories to search for the input file
31            if it was not supplied with an absolute path. Each directory
32            path in the given list should be separated by a ':' on Unix (';'
33            on MSWin32 and DOS).
34
35    *file*  The pathname of a file containing pod documentation to be output
36            in usage mesage format (defaults to standard input).
37
38DESCRIPTION
39    pod2usage will read the given input file looking for pod documentation
40    and will print the corresponding usage message. If no input file is
41    specifed than standard input is read.
42
43    pod2usage invokes the pod2usage() function in the Pod::Usage module.
44    Please see the pod2usage() entry in the Pod::Usage manpage.
45
46SEE ALSO
47    the Pod::Usage manpage, the pod2text(1) manpage
48
49AUTHOR
50    Please report bugs using http://rt.cpan.org.
51
52    Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>
53
54    Based on code for pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen
55    <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
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