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.IX Title "PMDESC 1p"
.TH PMDESC 1p "2018-03-21" "perl v5.26.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
pmdesc \- print out version and whatis description of perl modules
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Given one or more module names, show the version number (if known)
and the 'whatis' line, that is, the \s-1NAME\s0 section's description,
typically used for generation of whatis databases.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
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.Vb 2
\&    $ pmdesc IO::Socket
\&    IO::Socket (1.25) \- Object interface to socket communications
\&
\&    $ oldperl pmdesc IO::Socket
\&    IO::Socket (1.1603) \- Object interface to socket communications
\&
\&    $ pmdesc \`pminst \-s | perl \-lane \*(Aqprint $F[1] if $F[0] =~ /site/\*(Aq\`
\&    XML::Parser::Expat (2.19) \- Lowlevel access to James Clark\*(Aqs expat XML parser
\&    XML::Parser (2.19) \- A perl module for parsing XML documents
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.SH "RESTRICTIONS"
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This only works on modules.  It should also work on filenames, but then
it's a bit tricky finding out the package to call the \s-1VERSION\s0 method on.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fIpmdesc\fR\|(1)
\&\fIpminst\fR\|(1)
\&\fIpmpath\fR\|(1)
\&\fIpmvers\fR\|(1)
.SH "AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS"
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Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
.PP
Copyright (C) 2006\-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.
.SH "LICENSE"
.IX Header "LICENSE"
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either:
(a) the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
later version, or
(b) the Perl \*(L"Artistic License\*(R".
(This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)
.PP
Please note this is a change from the
original pmtools\-1.00 (still available on \s-1CPAN\s0),
as pmtools\-1.00 were licensed only under the
Perl \*(L"Artistic License\*(R".