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NAME

       podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output

SYNOPSIS

       podselect [-help] [-man] [-section section-spec] [file ...]

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

       -help   Print a brief help message and exit.

       -man    Print the manual page and exit.

       -section section-spec
	       Specify a section to include in the output.  See "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Parser for the format to use for section-spec.
	       This option may be given multiple times on the command line.

       file    The pathname of a file from which to select sections of pod documentation (defaults to standard input).

DESCRIPTION

       podselect will read the given input files looking for pod documentation and will print out (in raw pod format) all sections that match one
       ore more of the given section specifications. If no section specifications are given than all pod sections encountered are output.

       podselect invokes the podselect() function exported by Pod::Select Please see "podselect()" in Pod::Select for more details.

SEE ALSO

       Pod::Parser and Pod::Select

AUTHOR

       Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

       Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>

perl v5.8.0							    2003-02-18							      PODSELECT(1)