c:\test>perldoc -h perldoc [options] PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName... perldoc [options] -f BuiltinFunction perldoc [options] -q FAQRegex perldoc [options] -v PerlVariable Options: -h Display this help message -V report version -r Recursive search (slow) -i Ignore case -t Display pod using pod2text instead of pod2man and nroff (-t is the default on win32 unless -n is specified) -u Display unformatted pod text -m Display module's file in its entirety -n Specify replacement for nroff -l Display the module's file name -F Arguments are file names, not modules -D Verbosely describe what's going on -T Send output to STDOUT without any pager -d output_filename_to_send_to -o output_format_name -M FormatterModuleNameToUse -w formatter_option:option_value -L translation_code Choose doc translation (if any) -X use index if present (looks for pod.idx at C:\Perl64\lib) -q Search the text of questions (not answers) in perlfaq[1-9] -f Search Perl built-in functions -v Search predefined Perl variables PageName|ModuleName... is the name of a piece of documentation that you want to look at. You may either give a descriptive name of the page (as in the case of `perlfunc') the name of a module, either like `Term::Info' or like `Term/Info', or the name of a program, like `perldoc'. BuiltinFunction is the name of a perl function. Will extract documentation from `perlfunc'. FAQRegex is a regex. Will search perlfaq[1-9] for and extract any questions that match. Any switches in the PERLDOC environment variable will be used before the command line arguments. The optional pod index file contains a list of filenames, one per line. [Perldoc v3.15]