returns perlfunc and perlop regardless of what "whatever" is.

$ perldoc -lf anomaly
/home/choroba/localperl/lib/5.43.9/pod/perlfunc.pod
/home/choroba/localperl/lib/5.43.9/pod/perlop.pod

Thanks for looking into it choroba. These results clearly contradict the perldoc documentation:

perldoc perldoc (and man perldoc) says:
-l   Display only the file name of the module found.

perldoc --help says:
-l   Display the module's file name

% perldoc -lf splice    
/Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/5.42.0/pods/perlfunc.pod
/Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/5.42.0/pods/perlop.pod

% perldoc $_        
No documentation found for "splice".

% perldoc -v $_
'splice' does not look like a Perl variable

% perldoc -v '$_'
$_      The default input and pattern-searching space...

% perldoc -v '$_'
$_      The default input and pattern-searching space...

% perldoc -v '@_' 
@_      Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters...

% perldoc -v '%_'
No documentation for perl variable '%_' found

I'm not sure about the "another anomaly". You get the documentation of splice for $_, as $_ without quotes is the shell variable which contains the last argument of the last command.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

$_ without quotes is the shell variable which contains the last argument of the last command.

🤦

> as $_ without quotes is the shell variable which contains the last argument of the last command

Similar to ALT-. which is introducing the last argument verbatim.

But what I was really longing for is a variable or hotkey producing the last output , alas this doesn't exist.

The closest I could find now is `!!` , I.e. to backtick the last command.

But I'd really love to facilitate this be defining a shortcut introducing `!!` ...

So I figured out bind '"\e,":"`!!`"' (ESC for ALT) which also works well on termux.

Put it into your bashrc and it'll help you to incrementally build one liners.

Dumb example:

$ bind '"\e,":"`!!`"'
$ ls *re.pl
tst_re.pl
$ echo `!!`        # typed "echo ALT-,"
echo `ls *re.pl`   # expanded history entry
tst_re.pl
$
[download]

Update

This will nest better when used repeatedly

$ bind '"\e,":"$(!!)"'
[download]

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

These results clearly contradict the perldoc documentation:

That's not true. The docs don't say what happens if you use -l with -f func instead of a module.

Here's another anomaly

What do you think is anomalous? That it's looking up splice instead of $_? That's your error. You interpolated shell variable $_ into your shell command, and it apparently had the value splice.

And another one:

What do you think is anomalous? That output is correct too, and I have no idea what you think is wrong.

Ok I was confused about -lf (and -lv and -lq) and my $_ anomaly is pure facepalm. But what about this:

% perldoc -v '%_'
No documentation for perl variable '%_' found

%_ is a special snowflake like $_ and @_ in that they can be used under strict without declaration and they all fail in the same way if you try to own them with my: Can't use global %_ in "my" (but our and local work on all of them). I like using it sometimes in one-liners and dirty scripts cause $_{$_} looks weird and cool and it works good and I like typing it! Anyway I made Claude Haiku 4.5 at duck.ai think about %_ for 36 seconds! I've never seen the robots get so confused. They insist it doesn't exist, or it's nothing special, or that it's a filehandle or a reference to the last call to stat lol:

perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le '%_ = ( foo => 1, bar => 2 ); print "$_ =
+ $_{$_}" for keys %_'
[download]

foo = 1
bar = 2

So why isn't it documented? I could swear I saw it somewhere once upon a time, or maybe not... What is it??? Thanks

These results clearly contradict the perldoc documentation:

That's not true. The docs don't say what happens if you use -l with -f func instead of a module.

Here's another anomaly

What do you think is anomalous? That it's looking up splice instead of $_? That's your error. You interpolated shell variable $_ into your shell command, and it apparently had the value splice.

And another one:

What do you think is anomalous? That output is correct too, and I have no idea what you think is wrong.