source: appendixa/perl-desc.xml@ 978d0bf

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<sect2><title>Descriptions</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &perl-contversion;.)</para>

<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>

<para><command>a2p</command> translates awk to perl.</para>

<para><command>c2ph</command> dumps C structures as generated from
"cc -g -S" stabs.</para>

<para><command>dprofpp</command> displays perl profile data.</para>

<para><command>find2perl</command> translates find commands to perl.</para>

<para><command>h2ph</command> converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.</para>

<para><command>h2xs</command> converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para>

<para><command>perl</command> combines some of the best features of C, sed,
awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.</para>

<para><command>perlbug</command> is used to generate bug reports about
Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.</para>

<para><command>perlcc</command> generates executables from Perl programs.</para>

<para><command>perldoc</command> displays a piece of documentation in pod
format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script.</para>

<para><command>pl2pm</command> is a rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl
files to Perl5 .pm modules.</para>

<para><command>pod2html</command> converts files from pod format to HTML
format.</para>

<para><command>pod2latex</command> converts files from pod format to LaTeX
format.</para>

<para><command>pod2man</command> converts pod data to formatted *roff
input.</para>

<para><command>pod2text</command> converts pod data to formatted ASCII
text.</para>

<para><command>pod2usage</command> prints usage messages from embedded
pod docs in files.</para>

<para><command>podchecker</command> checks the syntax of pod format
documentation files.</para>

<para><command>podselect</command> displays selected sections of pod
documentation.</para>

<para><command>pstruct</command> dumps C structures as generated from
"cc -g -S" stabs.</para>

<para><command>s2p</command> translates sed to perl.</para>

<para><command>splain</command> is used to force verbose warning
diagnostics in perl.</para>

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<sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>

<para><command>attrs</command>...</para>

<para><command>B</command>...</para>

<para><command>ByteLoader</command>...</para>

<para><command>DProf</command>...</para>

<para><command>Dumper</command>...</para>

<para><command>DynaLoader</command>...</para>

<para><command>Fcntl</command>...</para>

<para><command>Glob</command>...</para>

<para><command>Hostname</command>...</para>

<para><command>IO</command>...</para>

<para><command>libperl</command>...</para>

<para><command>Opcode</command>...</para>

<para><command>Peek</command>...</para>

<para><command>POSIX</command>...</para>

<para><command>re</command>...</para>

<para><command>SDBM_File</command>...</para>

<para><command>Socket</command>...</para>

<para><command>Syslog</command>...</para>

<para><command>SysV</command>...</para>

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