I have a directory of scripts which I've written and would like to make available to the public through my job's website. I've been meaning to come up with a system that will do the following:

1. Check each script out of the directory

2. Run a Pod2Html formatter to generate on-line documentation.

3. Bundle the script, a README and a license file into a tarfile.

After this thread, I saw an easy way to do Step #2. Here's my stab at a quick throwaway script that will take a list of files from the command line and make HTML documentation for them in a reasonable manner. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Quick and dirty script for converting perl POD to HTML
# Tex Thompson, 2004 <tex@biosysadmin.com>

use strict;
use Pod::HtmlEasy;

my $podhtml = Pod::HtmlEasy->new() ;

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
   if ( ! -f $file ) {
      print STDERR "Error: $file does not exist\n";
      next;
   }

   my $html = $podhtml->pod2html( $file ) ;

   my $outfile = $file . '.html';
   open OUTFILE, ">$outfile" or die $!;
   print OUTFILE "$html\n" ;
   close OUTFILE or die $!;
}

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Being in a funny mood, I actually timed my development/testing of this, and it took me 12 minutes and 27 seconds. :)

In reply to Quick Pod2Html Hack by biosysadmin

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