pmdesc1p

Overview

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 of 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.

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.