podselect
Extract sections from Perl POD files
TLDR
Extract specific sections from POD
$ podselect -section [NAME] [file.pod]
Extract multiple sections$ podselect -section [NAME] -section [SYNOPSIS] [file.pod]
Process multiple files$ podselect -section [NAME] [*.pod]
SYNOPSIS
podselect [options] [files]
DESCRIPTION
podselect extracts specific named sections from Perl POD (Plain Old Documentation) files. It filters the POD content and outputs only the sections matching the -section arguments.Multiple -section flags can be specified to extract several sections at once. This is useful for extracting individual sections like NAME, SYNOPSIS, or DESCRIPTION from larger POD documents. Part of the standard Perl distribution.
PARAMETERS
FILES
Input POD files.-section NAME
Section to extract.
INSTALL
sudo pacman -S perl-pod-parser
sudo apk add perl-pod-parser
CAVEATS
Perl-specific format. Standard Perl utility.
HISTORY
podselect was created for selective POD section extraction.
SEE ALSO
pod2text(1), podchecker(1), perldoc(1)
