pod2man
Convert Perl POD documentation to man pages
TLDR
Convert POD to man page
$ pod2man [file.pod] > [file.1]
Specify section$ pod2man --section=[1] [file.pod] > [file.1]
Set name and release$ pod2man --name="[NAME]" --release="[1.0]" [file.pod] > [file.1]
SYNOPSIS
pod2man [options] [file]
DESCRIPTION
pod2man is a front-end for Pod::Man, converting Perl POD (Plain Old Documentation) into Unix manual page format (*roff). The output can be displayed with nroff via man, or printed with troff.If no input file is given, it reads from STDIN. If no output file is given, it writes to STDOUT. The default center header is "User Contributed Perl Documentation". Part of the standard Perl distribution, commonly used in module build systems.
PARAMETERS
FILE
Input POD file.--section N
Man page section.--name NAME
Man page name.--release VERSION
Release version string.--center TEXT
Center header text.--date DATE
Date for left-hand footer (default: input file modification date).--utf8
Assume UTF-8 encoding for input.--stderr
Print errors to stderr.--fixed FONT
Fixed-width font for verbatim text.
CAVEATS
Perl-specific format. Standard Perl utility.
HISTORY
pod2man was created for generating man pages from Perl documentation.
