pmdesc − print out version and whatis description of perl modules
Given one or more module names, show the version number (if known) and the ‘whatis’ line, that is, the NAME section’s description, typically used for generation whatis databases.
$ 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 ’print $F[1] if $F[0] =~ /site/’‘ XML::Parser::Expat (2.19) − Lowlevel access to James Clark’s expat XML parser XML::Parser (2.19) − A perl module for parsing XML documents
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 VERSION method on.
pmdesc(1) pminst(1) pmpath(1) pmvers(1)
Copyright (c) 1999 Tom Christiansen
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