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
Here's another anomaly: 
% 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 '$_'
$_      The default input and pattern-searching space...
And another one: 
% perldoc -v '$_'
$_      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

In reply to Re^2: perldoc -lf anomaly by Anonymous Monk
in thread perldoc -lf anomaly by Anonymous Monk

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