Perl/Perldoc
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Note: This page should be titled perldoc (all lowercase). It is Perldoc due to technical limitations of Mediawiki.
perldoc displays perl documentation in a man format.
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Common Usage
Look as the table of contents for the perl documentation:
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ perldoc perltoc
Look at the perl introduction:
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ perldoc perlintro
Look for information about a particular function:
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ perldoc -f shift
Look at the LWP tutorial:
[ggeller@arthur ~]$ perldoc lwptut
Look for perldoc and man pages with a particular string:
[georgeg@rop ~]$ man -k tutorial
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see also
perldoc perldoc
Perl
