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 of 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.
pminst(1) pmpath(1) pmvers(1)
Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.
Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
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or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5 licensing
scheme.)
Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on
CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic
License".