NAME

autopod - using the Perl library Pod::Autopod to generate javadoc like documentation with pod syntax. It is designed to understand perl code in class style, so typically PM files.

SYNOPSIS

autopod [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

The following options may be used:

--help

Prints this help.

--readfile | -r

Perl module to be parsed for building a pod.

--writefile | -w

Output file to write the pod.

If this filename has a "pm" extension, it also writes the perl code which was read from the origin.

If this filename has a "pod" extension or any other, it only writes the pod content.

If there is no --writefile used and no --print, it overwrites the file set via --readfile.

My personal warning: as long this is a new software, better backup your pm file before overwriting it directly.

--print | -p

Instead of writing to a file, you can print to STDOUT the generated pod file.

        e.g.: autopod -r Foo/Bar.pm -p 

        You may combine this line to pipe to further applications.

        e.g.: autopod -r Foo/Bar.pm -p | pod2text 
 
 
        Do not use it in combination with readdir.
        

--readdir | -d

Scans a directory recursiv for pm files and generates the pod for them.

--update | -u

In combination with --readdir it updates only files which have been pod'ed with autopod in the past. An alternative is to write somewhere in the pm file the magic word "AUTOPODME".

--pod

In combination with --readdir it writes separat pod files instead of updating the original pm files. They will be parallel to the pm file.

--poddir

It writes the pod files to a separate directory. --pod is automatically enabled when using --poddir.

--verbose

In combination with --readdir it prints the filenames which are written.

        autopod.pl -d mylibs -u -verbose

--version | -v

Prints the version of Pod::Autopod.

licence is LGPL

by Andreas Hernitscheck ahernit(AT)cpan.org