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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"> |
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary> |
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| 15 | </indexterm> |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 18 | <title/> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report |
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| 21 | Language.</para> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | </sect2> |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 26 | <title>Installation of Perl</title> |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | <para os="a00">Before starting to configure, create a basic |
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| 29 | <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced in one |
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| 30 | of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite |
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| 31 | if you run that.</para> |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <screen os="a01"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen> |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the |
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| 36 | interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way |
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| 37 | this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable, |
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| 38 | prepare Perl for compilation with:</para> |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | <screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \ |
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| 41 | -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \ |
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| 42 | -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \ |
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| 43 | -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen> |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | <variablelist os="c"> |
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| 46 | <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title> |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | <varlistentry os="c1"> |
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| 49 | <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term> |
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| 50 | <listitem> |
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| 51 | <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command> |
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| 52 | invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para> |
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| 53 | </listitem> |
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| 54 | </varlistentry> |
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| 55 | <varlistentry os="c2"> |
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| 56 | <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term> |
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| 57 | <listitem> |
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| 58 | <para>Since Groff is not installed yet, |
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| 59 | <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want |
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| 60 | man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para> |
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| 61 | </listitem> |
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| 62 | </varlistentry> |
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| 63 | </variablelist> |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | <para os="d">Compile the package:</para> |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | <screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | <para os="h">To test the results, issue: |
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| 70 | <userinput>make test</userinput>.</para> |
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| 71 | |
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| 72 | <para os="j">Install the package:</para> |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | <screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | </sect2> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content"> |
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| 79 | <title>Contents of Perl</title> |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 82 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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| 83 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle> |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | <seglistitem> |
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| 86 | <seg>a2p, c2ph, cpan, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, libnetcfg, |
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| 87 | perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, |
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| 88 | perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, |
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| 89 | pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link |
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| 90 | to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg> |
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| 91 | <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg> |
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| 92 | </seglistitem> |
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| 93 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | <variablelist> |
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| 96 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 97 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 98 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | <varlistentry id="a2p"> |
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| 101 | <term><command>a2p</command></term> |
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| 102 | <listitem> |
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| 103 | <para>Translates awk to Perl</para> |
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| 104 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p"> |
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| 105 | <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary> |
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| 106 | </indexterm> |
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| 107 | </listitem> |
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| 108 | </varlistentry> |
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| 109 | |
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| 110 | <varlistentry id="c2ph"> |
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| 111 | <term><command>c2ph</command></term> |
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| 112 | <listitem> |
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| 113 | <para>Dumps C structures as generated from |
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| 114 | <command>cc -g -S</command></para> |
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| 115 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"> |
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| 116 | <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary> |
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| 117 | </indexterm> |
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| 118 | </listitem> |
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| 119 | </varlistentry> |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | <varlistentry id="cpan"> |
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| 122 | <term><command>cpan</command></term> |
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| 123 | <listitem> |
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| 124 | <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para> |
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| 125 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan"> |
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| 126 | <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary> |
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| 127 | </indexterm> |
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| 128 | </listitem> |
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| 129 | </varlistentry> |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | <varlistentry id="dprofpp"> |
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| 132 | <term><command>dprofpp</command></term> |
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| 133 | <listitem> |
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| 134 | <para>Displays Perl profile data</para> |
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| 135 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp"> |
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| 136 | <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary> |
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| 137 | </indexterm> |
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| 138 | </listitem> |
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| 139 | </varlistentry> |
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| 140 | |
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| 141 | <varlistentry id="enc2xs"> |
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| 142 | <term><command>enc2xs</command></term> |
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| 143 | <listitem> |
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| 144 | <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either |
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| 145 | Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para> |
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| 146 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs"> |
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| 147 | <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary> |
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| 148 | </indexterm> |
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| 149 | </listitem> |
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| 150 | </varlistentry> |
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| 151 | |
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| 152 | <varlistentry id="find2perl"> |
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| 153 | <term><command>find2perl</command></term> |
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| 154 | <listitem> |
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| 155 | <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para> |
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| 156 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl"> |
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| 157 | <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary> |
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| 158 | </indexterm> |
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| 159 | </listitem> |
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| 160 | </varlistentry> |
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| 161 | |
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| 162 | <varlistentry id="h2ph"> |
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| 163 | <term><command>h2ph</command></term> |
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| 164 | <listitem> |
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| 165 | <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header |
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| 166 | files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header |
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| 167 | files</para> |
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| 168 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph"> |
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| 169 | <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary> |
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| 170 | </indexterm> |
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| 171 | </listitem> |
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| 172 | </varlistentry> |
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| 173 | |
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| 174 | <varlistentry id="h2xs"> |
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| 175 | <term><command>h2xs</command></term> |
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| 176 | <listitem> |
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| 177 | <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header |
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| 178 | files to Perl extensions</para> |
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| 179 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs"> |
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| 180 | <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary> |
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| 181 | </indexterm> |
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| 182 | </listitem> |
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| 183 | </varlistentry> |
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| 184 | |
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| 185 | <varlistentry id="libnetcfg"> |
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| 186 | <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term> |
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| 187 | <listitem> |
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| 188 | <para>Can be used to configure the |
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| 189 | <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para> |
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| 190 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg"> |
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| 191 | <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary> |
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| 192 | </indexterm> |
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| 193 | </listitem> |
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| 194 | </varlistentry> |
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| 195 | |
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| 196 | <varlistentry id="instmodsh"> |
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| 197 | <term><command>instmodsh</command></term> |
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| 198 | <listitem> |
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| 199 | <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules, |
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| 200 | and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para> |
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| 201 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh"> |
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| 202 | <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary> |
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| 203 | </indexterm> |
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| 204 | </listitem> |
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| 205 | </varlistentry> |
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| 206 | |
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| 207 | <varlistentry id="perl"> |
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| 208 | <term><command>perl</command></term> |
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| 209 | <listitem> |
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| 210 | <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>, |
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| 211 | <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single |
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| 212 | swiss-army-knife language</para> |
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| 213 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"> |
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| 214 | <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary> |
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| 215 | </indexterm> |
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| 216 | </listitem> |
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| 217 | </varlistentry> |
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| 218 | |
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| 219 | <varlistentry id="perl-version"> |
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| 220 | <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term> |
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| 221 | <listitem> |
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| 222 | <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para> |
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| 223 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version"> |
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| 224 | <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary> |
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| 225 | </indexterm> |
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| 226 | </listitem> |
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| 227 | </varlistentry> |
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| 228 | |
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| 229 | <varlistentry id="perlbug"> |
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| 230 | <term><command>perlbug</command></term> |
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| 231 | <listitem> |
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| 232 | <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come |
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| 233 | with it, and mail them</para> |
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| 234 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"> |
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| 235 | <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary> |
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| 236 | </indexterm> |
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| 237 | </listitem> |
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| 238 | </varlistentry> |
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| 239 | |
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| 240 | <varlistentry id="perlcc"> |
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| 241 | <term><command>perlcc</command></term> |
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| 242 | <listitem> |
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| 243 | <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para> |
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| 244 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"> |
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| 245 | <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary> |
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| 246 | </indexterm> |
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| 247 | </listitem> |
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| 248 | </varlistentry> |
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| 249 | |
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| 250 | <varlistentry id="perldoc"> |
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| 251 | <term><command>perldoc</command></term> |
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| 252 | <listitem> |
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| 253 | <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded |
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| 254 | in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para> |
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| 255 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"> |
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| 256 | <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary> |
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| 257 | </indexterm> |
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| 258 | </listitem> |
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| 259 | </varlistentry> |
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| 260 | |
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| 261 | <varlistentry id="perlivp"> |
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| 262 | <term><command>perlivp</command></term> |
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| 263 | <listitem> |
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| 264 | <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to |
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| 265 | verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed |
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| 266 | correctly</para> |
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| 267 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp"> |
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| 268 | <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary> |
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| 269 | </indexterm> |
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| 270 | </listitem> |
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| 271 | </varlistentry> |
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| 272 | |
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| 273 | <varlistentry id="piconv"> |
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| 274 | <term><command>piconv</command></term> |
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| 275 | <listitem> |
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| 276 | <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter |
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| 277 | <command>iconv</command></para> |
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| 278 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv"> |
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| 279 | <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary> |
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| 280 | </indexterm> |
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| 281 | </listitem> |
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| 282 | </varlistentry> |
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| 283 | |
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| 284 | <varlistentry id="pl2pm"> |
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| 285 | <term><command>pl2pm</command></term> |
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| 286 | <listitem> |
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| 287 | <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4 |
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| 288 | <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5 |
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| 289 | <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para> |
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| 290 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm"> |
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| 291 | <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary> |
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| 292 | </indexterm> |
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| 293 | </listitem> |
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| 294 | </varlistentry> |
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| 295 | |
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| 296 | <varlistentry id="pod2html"> |
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| 297 | <term><command>pod2html</command></term> |
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| 298 | <listitem> |
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| 299 | <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para> |
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| 300 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html"> |
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| 301 | <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary> |
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| 302 | </indexterm> |
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| 303 | </listitem> |
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| 304 | </varlistentry> |
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| 305 | |
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| 306 | <varlistentry id="pod2latex"> |
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| 307 | <term><command>pod2latex</command></term> |
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| 308 | <listitem> |
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| 309 | <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para> |
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| 310 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex"> |
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| 311 | <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary> |
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| 312 | </indexterm> |
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| 313 | </listitem> |
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| 314 | </varlistentry> |
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| 315 | |
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| 316 | <varlistentry id="pod2man"> |
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| 317 | <term><command>pod2man</command></term> |
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| 318 | <listitem> |
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| 319 | <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para> |
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| 320 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man"> |
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| 321 | <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary> |
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| 322 | </indexterm> |
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| 323 | </listitem> |
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| 324 | </varlistentry> |
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| 325 | |
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| 326 | <varlistentry id="pod2text"> |
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| 327 | <term><command>pod2text</command></term> |
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| 328 | <listitem> |
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| 329 | <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para> |
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| 330 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text"> |
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| 331 | <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary> |
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| 332 | </indexterm> |
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| 333 | </listitem> |
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| 334 | </varlistentry> |
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| 335 | |
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| 336 | <varlistentry id="pod2usage"> |
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| 337 | <term><command>pod2usage</command></term> |
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| 338 | <listitem> |
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| 339 | <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para> |
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| 340 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage"> |
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| 341 | <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary> |
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| 342 | </indexterm> |
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| 343 | </listitem> |
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| 344 | </varlistentry> |
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| 345 | |
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| 346 | <varlistentry id="podchecker"> |
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| 347 | <term><command>podchecker</command></term> |
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| 348 | <listitem> |
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| 349 | <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para> |
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| 350 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker"> |
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| 351 | <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary> |
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| 352 | </indexterm> |
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| 353 | </listitem> |
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| 354 | </varlistentry> |
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| 355 | |
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| 356 | <varlistentry id="podselect"> |
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| 357 | <term><command>podselect</command></term> |
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| 358 | <listitem> |
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| 359 | <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para> |
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| 360 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect"> |
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| 361 | <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary> |
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| 362 | </indexterm> |
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| 363 | </listitem> |
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| 364 | </varlistentry> |
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| 365 | |
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| 366 | <varlistentry id="prove"> |
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| 367 | <term><command>prove</command></term> |
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| 368 | <listitem> |
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| 369 | <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para> |
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| 370 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove"> |
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| 371 | <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary> |
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| 372 | </indexterm> |
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| 373 | </listitem> |
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| 374 | </varlistentry> |
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| 375 | |
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| 376 | <varlistentry id="psed"> |
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| 377 | <term><command>psed</command></term> |
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| 378 | <listitem> |
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| 379 | <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para> |
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| 380 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"> |
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| 381 | <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary> |
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| 382 | </indexterm> |
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| 383 | </listitem> |
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| 384 | </varlistentry> |
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| 385 | |
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| 386 | <varlistentry id="pstruct"> |
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| 387 | <term><command>pstruct</command></term> |
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| 388 | <listitem> |
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| 389 | <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command> |
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| 390 | stabs</para> |
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| 391 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct"> |
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| 392 | <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary> |
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| 393 | </indexterm> |
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| 394 | </listitem> |
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| 395 | </varlistentry> |
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| 396 | |
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| 397 | <varlistentry id="s2p"> |
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| 398 | <term><command>s2p</command></term> |
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| 399 | <listitem> |
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| 400 | <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para> |
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| 401 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p"> |
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| 402 | <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary> |
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| 403 | </indexterm> |
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| 404 | </listitem> |
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| 405 | </varlistentry> |
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| 406 | |
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| 407 | <varlistentry id="splain"> |
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| 408 | <term><command>splain</command></term> |
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| 409 | <listitem> |
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| 410 | <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para> |
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| 411 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"> |
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| 412 | <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary> |
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| 413 | </indexterm> |
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| 414 | </listitem> |
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| 415 | </varlistentry> |
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| 416 | |
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| 417 | <varlistentry id="xsubpp"> |
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| 418 | <term><command>xsubpp</command></term> |
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| 419 | <listitem> |
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| 420 | <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para> |
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| 421 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp"> |
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| 422 | <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary> |
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| 423 | </indexterm> |
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| 424 | </listitem> |
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| 425 | </varlistentry> |
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| 426 | |
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| 427 | </variablelist> |
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| 428 | |
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| 429 | </sect2> |
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| 430 | |
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| 431 | </sect1> |
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