Shawn Corey wrote:
...searching perldoc really, really sucks. The only search
available is `perldoc -q keyword` and it only searches the FAQs and
then, only their questions. That's right, only the questions; the
answers are skipped!
Here's a 3-line shell script I use to grep through the core documentation.
#!/bin/sh
poddir=$(dirname $(perldoc -l perl))
grep -r "$@" $poddir/*.pod
Example (on FreeBSD 5.4):
$ podgrep -iwl gethostbyname
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perlfaq9.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perlfunc.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perlipc.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perlos390.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perlport.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perltoc.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perltoot.pod
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/pod/perlvms.pod
But I agree that a Google search like "gethostbyname
site:perldoc.perl.org" is superior.
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