Resources

Online Documentation

  • perldoc perlpod— Description of the POD documentation formation.

Commands

  • pod2html— Turns POD into HTML.

  • pod2latex— Turns POD into LaTeX (a documentation formatting system found on most Linux systems and a few UNIX ones).

  • pod2man— Turns POD into man format. (Man format can by read by the UNIX/Linux man command and turned into printed documentation by the nroff, groff, troff, and ditroff commands.)

  • pod2text— Prints POD documentation as text.

  • podchecker— Checks POD documentation for errors.

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