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# NAME

podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output

# SYNOPSIS

podselect [-help] [-man] [-section section-spec] [file ...]

# OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

- -help

  Print a brief help message and exit.

- -man

  Print the manual page and exit.

- -section section-spec

  Specify a section to include in the output. See SECTION SPECIFICATIONS in Pod::Parser for the format to use for section-spec. This option may be given multiple times on the command line.

- file

  The pathname of a file from which to select sections of pod documentation (defaults to standard input).

# DESCRIPTION

podselect will read the given input files looking for pod documentation and will print out (in raw pod format) all sections that match one ore more of the given section specifications. If no section specifications are given than all pod sections encountered are output.

podselect invokes the podselect() function exported by Pod::Select Please see podselect() in Pod::Select for more details.

# SEE ALSO

Pod::Parser and Pod::Select

# AUTHOR

Please report bugs using http://rt.cpan.org.

Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>

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