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# podselect

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
- DESCRIPTION
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR

## 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 the section on SECTION SPECIFICATIONS in the Pod::Parser manpage 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 the podselect() entry in the Pod::Select manpage for more details.

## SEE ALSO

the Pod::Parser manpage and the Pod::Select manpage

## AUTHOR

Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>

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

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