A quick and dirty counter. Change your starting directory accordingly.

$ find /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.1/ -name "*.pm" -or -name "*.pod" | \
xargs perl -lne 'print if s/^=head1 //'  | \
 perl -lne '$ndx{$_}++;END{for(sort{$ndx{$b}<=>$ndx{$a}}
 keys %ndx) {exit if$count++>30;print"$_ => $ndx{$_}"}}'

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resulting in 

NAME => 453
DESCRIPTION => 436
SYNOPSIS => 333
SEE ALSO => 211
AUTHOR => 200
BUGS => 74
COPYRIGHT => 51
AUTHORS => 46
EXAMPLES => 42
HISTORY => 29
NOTES => 29
METHODS => 26
CAVEATS => 23
NOTE => 19
DIAGNOSTICS => 18
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT => 14
ABSTRACT => 14
EXAMPLE => 13
ENVIRONMENT => 13
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE => 12
CONSTRUCTOR => 12
LICENSE => 12
FUNCTIONS => 11
OPTIONS => 9
Utility Changes => 9
WARNING => 8
Modules and Pragmata => 8
Incompatible Changes => 8
Reporting Bugs => 8
EXPORTS => 8
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS => 7

In reply to Re: PodHead Census by rnahi
in thread PodHead Census by Intrepid

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