05-04-2007
Oldest files
Anyone know of a way to list all of the files including subdirectories and list them as oldest first?
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NAME
pod2html - convert .pod files to .html files
SYNOPSIS
pod2html --help --htmlroot=<name> --infile=<name> --outfile=<name>
--podpath=<name>:...:<name> --podroot=<name>
--recurse --norecurse --verbose
--index --noindex --title=<name>
DESCRIPTION
Converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to HTML format.
ARGUMENTS
pod2html takes the following arguments:
help
--help
Displays the usage message.
htmlroot
--htmlroot=name
Sets the base URL for the HTML files. When cross-references are made, the HTML root is prepended to the URL.
infile
--infile=name
Specify the pod file to convert. Input is taken from STDIN if no infile is specified.
outfile
--outfile=name
Specify the HTML file to create. Output goes to STDOUT if no outfile is specified.
podroot
--podroot=name
Specify the base directory for finding library pods.
podpath
--podpath=name:...:name
Specify which subdirectories of the podroot contain pod files whose HTML converted forms can be linked-to in cross-references.
index
--index
Generate an index at the top of the HTML file (default behaviour).
noindex
--noindex
Do not generate an index at the top of the HTML file.
recurse
--recurse
Recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath (default behaviour).
norecurse
--norecurse
Do not recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath.
title
--title=title
Specify the title of the resulting HTML file.
verbose
--verbose
Display progress messages.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen, <tchrist@perl.com>.
BUGS
See Pod::Html for a list of known bugs in the translator.
SEE ALSO
perlpod, Pod::Html
COPYRIGHT
This program is distributed under the Artistic License.
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