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NAME

podchecker - check the syntax of POD format documentation files


SYNOPSIS

podchecker [-help] [-man] [-(no)warnings] [file ...]


OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

-help

Print a brief help message and exit.

-man

Print the manual page and exit.

-warnings -nowarnings

Turn on/off printing of warnings. Repeating -warnings increases the warning level, i.e. more warnings are printed. Currently increasing to level two causes flagging of unescaped "<,>" characters.

file

The pathname of a POD file to syntax-check (defaults to standard input).


DESCRIPTION

podchecker will read the given input files looking for POD syntax errors in the POD documentation and will print any errors it find to STDERR. At the end, it will print a status message indicating the number of errors found.

Directories are ignored, an appropriate warning message is printed.

podchecker invokes the podchecker() function exported by Pod::Checker Please see podchecker() in the Pod::Checker manpage for more details.


RETURN VALUE

podchecker returns a 0 (zero) exit status if all specified POD files are ok.


ERRORS

podchecker returns the exit status 1 if at least one of the given POD files has syntax errors.

The status 2 indicates that at least one of the specified files does not contain any POD commands.

Status 1 overrides status 2. If you want unambigouus results, call podchecker with one single argument only.


SEE ALSO

the Pod::Parser manpage and the Pod::Checker manpage


AUTHORS

Please report bugs using http://rt.cpan.org.

Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>, Marek Rouchal <marekr@cpan.org>

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


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