Thanx, but grepping fulltext thru all pods wasn't really my intention...

Anyway in bash it could be done as a one-liner 

# ALL OCCURENCES
> grep -l 'qr//' /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/*.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perl5005delta.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perl561delta.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perl56delta.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlfaq6.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlfaq7.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlfunc.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlglossary.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlguts.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlop.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlreapi.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlreguts.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlre.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlretut.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perltoc.pod

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# JUST THE X TAGS WITH qr
> grep -l 'X<qr>' /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/*.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perlop.pod
/usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/perltoc.pod

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# AUTOMATICALLY OPENING THE SEARCHRESULTS IN PERLDOC
> for i in `grep -l 'X<qr>' /usr/share/perl/5.10/pod/*.pod`;do perldoc
+ $i;done

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You can even tell the pager to search within the file for the pattern... 8)

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^2: [perldoc] keyword search by LanX
in thread [perldoc] keyword search by LanX

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