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Re: perldoc and perl-doc

From Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject Re: perldoc and perl-doc
Date 2013-07-02 12:37 +0100
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References (1 earlier) <2n50aa-orq.ln1@news.rtij.nl> <86hagds7kq.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> <fV45K0OBJxbE-pn2-O1PE6qgbTSpG@paddington.bear.den> <2dnaaa-sqt.ln1@anubis.morrow.me.uk> <874ncd43e7.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net>

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Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> PS.  And should anyone ask my advice about reading Perl documentation,
> 	it's highly unlikely that perldoc(1) would come to my mind as
> 	something deserving a mention.

perldoc -f is quite useful for looking up descriptions of individual
builtin functions/operators. I also perldoc -q, although less
frequently.

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