True, those modules are promising, but I suppose this means I'll have to write my own script to rip out the data and that such functionality isn't built-into any perldoc command line attribute.

Update: Using Pod::Select, the one-liner could be this

perl -e 'use Pod::Select; podselect({-sections =>[$ARGV[1]]},($ARGV[0]))' huh.pl whatThe

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