PODCHECKER(1)
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 ppooddcchheecckkeerr(()) function exported by Pod::Checker Please see "podchecker()" in Pod::Checker 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 unambiguous results, call
podchecker with one single argument only.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Parser and Pod::Checker
AUTHORS
Please report bugs using <http://rt.cpan.org>.
Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>, Marek Rouchal <marekr@cpan.org>
- Based on code for PPoodd::::TTeexxtt::::ppoodd22tteexxtt(1) written by Tom Christiansen
<tchrist@mox.perl.com>