PODCHECKER
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1)
Updated: 2021-01-27
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NAME
podchecker - check the syntax of POD format documentation files
SYNOPSIS
podchecker [
-help] [
-man] [
-(no)warnings] [
file ...]
OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
- -help
-
Print a brief help message and exit.
- -man
-
Print the manual page and exit.
- -warnings -nowarnings
-
Turn on/off printing of warnings. Repeating -warnings increases the
warning level, i.e. more warnings are printed. Currently increasing to
level two causes flagging of unescaped ``<,>'' characters.
- file
-
The pathname of a POD file to syntax-check (defaults to standard input).
DESCRIPTION
podchecker will read the given input files looking for
POD
syntax errors in the
POD documentation and will print any errors
it find to
STDERR. At the end, it will print a status message
indicating the number of errors found.
Directories are ignored, an appropriate warning message is printed.
podchecker invokes the podchecker() function exported by Pod::Checker
Please see ``podchecker()'' in Pod::Checker for more details.
RETURN VALUE
podchecker returns a 0 (zero) exit status if all specified
POD files are ok.
ERRORS
podchecker returns the exit status 1 if at least one of
the given
POD files has syntax errors.
The status 2 indicates that at least one of the specified
files does not contain any POD commands.
Status 1 overrides status 2. If you want unambiguous
results, call podchecker with one single argument only.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Simple and Pod::Checker
AUTHORS
Please report bugs using <
http://rt.cpan.org>.
Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>,
Marek Rouchal <marekr@cpan.org>
Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>