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############################################################################# # Pod/Usage.pm -- print usage messages for the running script. # # Copyright (c) 1996-2000 by Bradford Appleton. All rights reserved. # Copyright (c) 2001-2016 by Marek Rouchal. # This file is part of "Pod-Usage". Pod-Usage is free software; # you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms # as Perl itself. ############################################################################# package Pod::Usage; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT); $VERSION = '1.69'; ## Current version of this package require 5.006; ## requires this Perl version or later #use diagnostics; use Carp; use Config; use Exporter; use File::Spec; @EXPORT = qw(&pod2usage); BEGIN { $Pod::Usage::Formatter ||= 'Pod::Text'; eval "require $Pod::Usage::Formatter"; die $@ if $@; @ISA = ( $Pod::Usage::Formatter ); } our $MAX_HEADING_LEVEL = 3; ##--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##--------------------------------- ## Function definitions begin here ##--------------------------------- sub pod2usage { local($_) = shift; my %opts; ## Collect arguments if (@_ > 0) { ## Too many arguments - assume that this is a hash and ## the user forgot to pass a reference to it. %opts = ($_, @_); } elsif (!defined $_) { $_ = ''; } elsif (ref $_) { ## User passed a ref to a hash %opts = %{$_} if (ref($_) eq 'HASH'); } elsif (/^[-+]?\d+$/) { ## User passed in the exit value to use $opts{'-exitval'} = $_; } else { ## User passed in a message to print before issuing usage. $_ and $opts{'-message'} = $_; } ## Need this for backward compatibility since we formerly used ## options that were all uppercase words rather than ones that ## looked like Unix command-line options. ## to be uppercase keywords) %opts = map { my ($key, $val) = ($_, $opts{$_}); $key =~ s/^(?=\w)/-/; $key =~ /^-msg/i and $key = '-message'; $key =~ /^-exit/i and $key = '-exitval'; lc($key) => $val; } (keys %opts); ## Now determine default -exitval and -verbose values to use if ((! defined $opts{'-exitval'}) && (! defined $opts{'-verbose'})) { $opts{'-exitval'} = 2; $opts{'-verbose'} = 0; } elsif (! defined $opts{'-exitval'}) { $opts{'-exitval'} = ($opts{'-verbose'} > 0) ? 1 : 2; } elsif (! defined $opts{'-verbose'}) { $opts{'-verbose'} = (lc($opts{'-exitval'}) eq 'noexit' || $opts{'-exitval'} < 2); } ## Default the output file $opts{'-output'} = (lc($opts{'-exitval'}) eq 'noexit' || $opts{'-exitval'} < 2) ? \*STDOUT : \*STDERR unless (defined $opts{'-output'}); ## Default the input file $opts{'-input'} = $0 unless (defined $opts{'-input'}); ## Look up input file in path if it doesn't exist. unless ((ref $opts{'-input'}) || (-e $opts{'-input'})) { my $basename = $opts{'-input'}; my $pathsep = ($^O =~ /^(?:dos|os2|MSWin32)$/i) ? ';' : (($^O eq 'MacOS' || $^O eq 'VMS') ? ',' : ':'); my $pathspec = $opts{'-pathlist'} || $ENV{PATH} || $ENV{PERL5LIB}; my @paths = (ref $pathspec) ? @$pathspec : split($pathsep, $pathspec); for my $dirname (@paths) { $_ = File::Spec->catfile($dirname, $basename) if length; last if (-e $_) && ($opts{'-input'} = $_); } } ## Now create a pod reader and constrain it to the desired sections. my $parser = new Pod::Usage(USAGE_OPTIONS => \%opts); if ($opts{'-verbose'} == 0) { $parser->select('(?:SYNOPSIS|USAGE)\s*'); } elsif ($opts{'-verbose'} == 1) { my $opt_re = '(?i)' . '(?:OPTIONS|ARGUMENTS)' . '(?:\s*(?:AND|\/)\s*(?:OPTIONS|ARGUMENTS))?'; $parser->select( '(?:SYNOPSIS|USAGE)\s*', $opt_re, "DESCRIPTION/$opt_re" ); } elsif ($opts{'-verbose'} >= 2 && $opts{'-verbose'} != 99) { $parser->select('.*'); } elsif ($opts{'-verbose'} == 99) { my $sections = $opts{'-sections'}; $parser->select( (ref $sections) ? @$sections : $sections ); $opts{'-verbose'} = 1; } ## Check for perldoc my $progpath = $opts{'-perldoc'} ? $opts{'-perldoc'} : File::Spec->catfile($Config{scriptdirexp} || $Config{scriptdir}, 'perldoc'); my $version = sprintf("%vd",$^V); if ($Config{versiononly} and $Config{startperl} =~ /\Q$version\E$/ ) { $progpath .= $version; } $opts{'-noperldoc'} = 1 unless -e $progpath; ## Now translate the pod document and then exit with the desired status if ( !$opts{'-noperldoc'} and $opts{'-verbose'} >= 2 and !ref($opts{'-input'}) and $opts{'-output'} == \*STDOUT ) { ## spit out the entire PODs. Might as well invoke perldoc print { $opts{'-output'} } ($opts{'-message'}, "\n") if($opts{'-message'}); if(defined $opts{-input} && $opts{-input} =~ /^\s*(\S.*?)\s*$/) { # the perldocs back to 5.005 should all have -F # without -F there are warnings in -T scripts my $f = $1; my @perldoc_cmd = ($progpath); if ($opts{'-perldocopt'}) { $opts{'-perldocopt'} =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; push @perldoc_cmd, split(/\s+/, $opts{'-perldocopt'}); } push @perldoc_cmd, ('-F', $f); unshift @perldoc_cmd, $opts{'-perlcmd'} if $opts{'-perlcmd'}; system(@perldoc_cmd); if($?) { # RT16091: fall back to more if perldoc failed system(($Config{pager} || $ENV{PAGER} || '/bin/more'), $1); } } else { croak "Unspecified input file or insecure argument.\n"; } } else { $parser->parse_from_file($opts{'-input'}, $opts{'-output'}); } exit($opts{'-exitval'}) unless (lc($opts{'-exitval'}) eq 'noexit'); } ##--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##------------------------------- ## Method definitions begin here ##------------------------------- sub new { my $this = shift; my $class = ref($this) || $this; my %params = @_; my $self = {%params}; bless $self, $class; if ($self->can('initialize')) { $self->initialize(); } else { # pass through options to Pod::Text my %opts; for (qw(alt code indent loose margin quotes sentence stderr utf8 width)) { my $val = $params{USAGE_OPTIONS}{"-$_"}; $opts{$_} = $val if defined $val; } $self = $self->SUPER::new(%opts); %$self = (%$self, %params); } return $self; } # This subroutine was copied in whole-cloth from Pod::Select 1.60 in order to # allow the ejection of Pod::Select from the core without breaking Pod::Usage. # -- rjbs, 2013-03-18 sub _compile_section_spec { my ($section_spec) = @_; my (@regexs, $negated); ## Compile the spec into a list of regexs local $_ = $section_spec; s{\\\\}{\001}g; ## handle escaped backward slashes s{\\/}{\002}g; ## handle escaped forward slashes ## Parse the regexs for the heading titles @regexs = split(/\//, $_, $MAX_HEADING_LEVEL); ## Set default regex for ommitted levels for (my $i = 0; $i < $MAX_HEADING_LEVEL; ++$i) { $regexs[$i] = '.*' unless ((defined $regexs[$i]) && (length $regexs[$i])); } ## Modify the regexs as needed and validate their syntax my $bad_regexs = 0; for (@regexs) { $_ .= '.+' if ($_ eq '!'); s{\001}{\\\\}g; ## restore escaped backward slashes s{\002}{\\/}g; ## restore escaped forward slashes $negated = s/^\!//; ## check for negation eval "m{$_}"; ## check regex syntax if ($@) { ++$bad_regexs; carp qq{Bad regular expression /$_/ in "$section_spec": $@\n}; } else { ## Add the forward and rear anchors (and put the negator back) $_ = '^' . $_ unless (/^\^/); $_ = $_ . '$' unless (/\$$/); $_ = '!' . $_ if ($negated); } } return (! $bad_regexs) ? [ @regexs ] : undef; } sub select { my ($self, @sections) = @_; if ($ISA[0]->can('select')) { $self->SUPER::select(@sections); } else { # we're using Pod::Simple - need to mimic the behavior of Pod::Select my $add = ($sections[0] eq '+') ? shift(@sections) : ''; ## Reset the set of sections to use unless (@sections) { delete $self->{USAGE_SELECT} unless ($add); return; } $self->{USAGE_SELECT} = [] unless ($add && $self->{USAGE_SELECT}); my $sref = $self->{USAGE_SELECT}; ## Compile each spec for my $spec (@sections) { my $cs = _compile_section_spec($spec); if ( defined $cs ) { ## Store them in our sections array push(@$sref, $cs); } else { carp qq{Ignoring section spec "$spec"!\n}; } } } } # Override Pod::Text->seq_i to return just "arg", not "*arg*". sub seq_i { return $_[1] } # Override Pod::Text->cmd_i to return just "arg", not "*arg*". # newer version based on Pod::Simple sub cmd_i { return $_[2] } # This overrides the Pod::Text method to do something very akin to what # Pod::Select did as well as the work done below by preprocess_paragraph. # Note that the below is very, very specific to Pod::Text and Pod::Simple. sub _handle_element_end { my ($self, $element) = @_; if ($element eq 'head1') { $self->{USAGE_HEADINGS} = [ $$self{PENDING}[-1][1] ]; if ($self->{USAGE_OPTIONS}->{-verbose} < 2) { $$self{PENDING}[-1][1] =~ s/^\s*SYNOPSIS\s*$/USAGE/; } } elsif ($element =~ /^head(\d+)$/ && $1) { # avoid 0 my $idx = $1 - 1; $self->{USAGE_HEADINGS} = [] unless($self->{USAGE_HEADINGS}); $self->{USAGE_HEADINGS}->[$idx] = $$self{PENDING}[-1][1]; # we have to get rid of the lower headings splice(@{$self->{USAGE_HEADINGS}},$idx+1); } if ($element =~ /^head\d+$/) { $$self{USAGE_SKIPPING} = 1; if (!$$self{USAGE_SELECT} || !@{ $$self{USAGE_SELECT} }) { $$self{USAGE_SKIPPING} = 0; } else { my @headings = @{$$self{USAGE_HEADINGS}}; for my $section_spec ( @{$$self{USAGE_SELECT}} ) { my $match = 1; for (my $i = 0; $i < $MAX_HEADING_LEVEL; ++$i) { $headings[$i] = '' unless defined $headings[$i]; my $regex = $section_spec->[$i]; my $negated = ($regex =~ s/^\!//); $match &= ($negated ? ($headings[$i] !~ /${regex}/) : ($headings[$i] =~ /${regex}/)); last unless ($match); } # end heading levels if ($match) { $$self{USAGE_SKIPPING} = 0; last; } } # end sections } # Try to do some lowercasing instead of all-caps in headings, and use # a colon to end all headings. if($self->{USAGE_OPTIONS}->{-verbose} < 2) { local $_ = $$self{PENDING}[-1][1]; s{([A-Z])([A-Z]+)}{((length($2) > 2) ? $1 : lc($1)) . lc($2)}ge; s/\s*$/:/ unless (/:\s*$/); $_ .= "\n"; $$self{PENDING}[-1][1] = $_; } } if ($$self{USAGE_SKIPPING} && $element !~ m/^over-|^[BCFILSZ]$/) { pop @{ $$self{PENDING} }; } else { $self->SUPER::_handle_element_end($element); } } # required for Pod::Simple API sub start_document { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::start_document(); my $msg = $self->{USAGE_OPTIONS}->{-message} or return 1; my $out_fh = $self->output_fh(); print $out_fh "$msg\n"; } # required for old Pod::Parser API sub begin_pod { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::begin_pod(); ## Have to call superclass my $msg = $self->{USAGE_OPTIONS}->{-message} or return 1; my $out_fh = $self->output_handle(); print $out_fh "$msg\n"; } sub preprocess_paragraph { my $self = shift; local $_ = shift; my $line = shift; ## See if this is a heading and we aren't printing the entire manpage. if (($self->{USAGE_OPTIONS}->{-verbose} < 2) && /^=head/) { ## Change the title of the SYNOPSIS section to USAGE s/^=head1\s+SYNOPSIS\s*$/=head1 USAGE/; ## Try to do some lowercasing instead of all-caps in headings s{([A-Z])([A-Z]+)}{((length($2) > 2) ? $1 : lc($1)) . lc($2)}ge; ## Use a colon to end all headings s/\s*$/:/ unless (/:\s*$/); $_ .= "\n"; } return $self->SUPER::preprocess_paragraph($_); } 1; # keep require happy __END__ =head1 NAME Pod::Usage - print a usage message from embedded pod documentation =head1 SYNOPSIS use Pod::Usage my $message_text = "This text precedes the usage message."; my $exit_status = 2; ## The exit status to use my $verbose_level = 0; ## The verbose level to use my $filehandle = \*STDERR; ## The filehandle to write to pod2usage($message_text); pod2usage($exit_status); pod2usage( { -message => $message_text , -exitval => $exit_status , -verbose => $verbose_level, -output => $filehandle } ); pod2usage( -msg => $message_text , -exitval => $exit_status , -verbose => $verbose_level, -output => $filehandle ); pod2usage( -verbose => 2, -noperldoc => 1 ); pod2usage( -verbose => 2, -perlcmd => $path_to_perl, -perldoc => $path_to_perldoc, -perldocopt => $perldoc_options ); =head1 ARGUMENTS B<pod2usage> should be given either a single argument, or a list of arguments corresponding to an associative array (a "hash"). When a single argument is given, it should correspond to exactly one of the following: =over 4 =item * A string containing the text of a message to print I<before> printing the usage message =item * A numeric value corresponding to the desired exit status =item * A reference to a hash =back If more than one argument is given then the entire argument list is assumed to be a hash. If a hash is supplied (either as a reference or as a list) it should contain one or more elements with the following keys: =over 4 =item C<-message> I<string> =item C<-msg> I<string> The text of a message to print immediately prior to printing the program's usage message. =item C<-exitval> I<value> The desired exit status to pass to the B<exit()> function. This should be an integer, or else the string "NOEXIT" to indicate that control should simply be returned without terminating the invoking process. =item C<-verbose> I<value> The desired level of "verboseness" to use when printing the usage message. If the value is 0, then only the "SYNOPSIS" section of the pod documentation is printed. If the value is 1, then the "SYNOPSIS" section, along with any section entitled "OPTIONS", "ARGUMENTS", or "OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS" is printed. If the corresponding value is 2 or more then the entire manpage is printed, using L<perldoc> if available; otherwise L<Pod::Text> is used for the formatting. For better readability, the all-capital headings are downcased, e.g. C<SYNOPSIS> =E<gt> C<Synopsis>. The special verbosity level 99 requires to also specify the -sections parameter; then these sections are extracted and printed. =item C<-sections> I<spec> There are two ways to specify the selection. Either a string (scalar) representing a selection regexp for sections to be printed when -verbose is set to 99, e.g. "NAME|SYNOPSIS|DESCRIPTION|VERSION" With the above regexp all content following (and including) any of the given C<=head1> headings will be shown. It is possible to restrict the output to particular subsections only, e.g.: "DESCRIPTION/Algorithm" This will output only the C<=head2 Algorithm> heading and content within the C<=head1 DESCRIPTION> section. The regexp binding is stronger than the section separator, such that e.g.: "DESCRIPTION|OPTIONS|ENVIORNMENT/Caveats" will print any C<=head2 Caveats> section (only) within any of the three C<=head1> sections. Alternatively, an array reference of section specifications can be used: pod2usage(-verbose => 99, -sections => [ qw(DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION/Introduction) ] ); This will print only the content of C<=head1 DESCRIPTION> and the C<=head2 Introduction> sections, but no other C<=head2>, and no other C<=head1> either. =item C<-output> I<handle> A reference to a filehandle, or the pathname of a file to which the usage message should be written. The default is C<\*STDERR> unless the exit value is less than 2 (in which case the default is C<\*STDOUT>). =item C<-input> I<handle> A reference to a filehandle, or the pathname of a file from which the invoking script's pod documentation should be read. It defaults to the file indicated by C<$0> (C<$PROGRAM_NAME> for users of F<English.pm>). If you are calling B<pod2usage()> from a module and want to display that module's POD, you can use this: use Pod::Find qw(pod_where); pod2usage( -input => pod_where({-inc => 1}, __PACKAGE__) ); =item C<-pathlist> I<string> A list of directory paths. If the input file does not exist, then it will be searched for in the given directory list (in the order the directories appear in the list). It defaults to the list of directories implied by C<$ENV{PATH}>. The list may be specified either by a reference to an array, or by a string of directory paths which use the same path separator as C<$ENV{PATH}> on your system (e.g., C<:> for Unix, C<;> for MSWin32 and DOS). =item C<-noperldoc> By default, Pod::Usage will call L<perldoc> when -verbose >= 2 is specified. This does not work well e.g. if the script was packed with L<PAR>. The -noperldoc option suppresses the external call to L<perldoc> and uses the simple text formatter (L<Pod::Text>) to output the POD. =item C<-perlcmd> By default, Pod::Usage will call L<perldoc> when -verbose >= 2 is specified. In case of special or unusual Perl installations, the -perlcmd option may be used to supply the path to a L<perl> executable which should run L<perldoc>. =item C<-perldoc> I<path-to-perldoc> By default, Pod::Usage will call L<perldoc> when -verbose >= 2 is specified. In case L<perldoc> is not installed where the L<perl> interpreter thinks it is (see L<Config>), the -perldoc option may be used to supply the correct path to L<perldoc>. =item C<-perldocopt> I<string> By default, Pod::Usage will call L<perldoc> when -verbose >= 2 is specified. The -perldocopt option may be used to supply options to L<perldoc>. The string may contain several, space-separated options. =back =head2 Formatting base class The default text formatter is L<Pod::Text>. The base class for Pod::Usage can be defined by pre-setting C<$Pod::Usage::Formatter> I<before> loading Pod::Usage, e.g.: BEGIN { $Pod::Usage::Formatter = 'Pod::Text::Termcap'; } use Pod::Usage qw(pod2usage); Pod::Usage uses L<Pod::Simple>'s _handle_element_end() method to implement the section selection, and in case of verbosity < 2 it down-cases the all-caps headings to first capital letter and rest lowercase, and adds a colon/newline at the end of the headings, for better readability. Same for verbosity = 99. =head2 Pass-through options The following options are passed through to the underlying text formatter. See the manual pages of these modules for more information. alt code indent loose margin quotes sentence stderr utf8 width =head1 DESCRIPTION B<pod2usage> will print a usage message for the invoking script (using its embedded pod documentation) and then exit the script with the desired exit status. The usage message printed may have any one of three levels of "verboseness": If the verbose level is 0, then only a synopsis is printed. If the verbose level is 1, then the synopsis is printed along with a description (if present) of the command line options and arguments. If the verbose level is 2, then the entire manual page is printed. Unless they are explicitly specified, the default values for the exit status, verbose level, and output stream to use are determined as follows: =over 4 =item * If neither the exit status nor the verbose level is specified, then the default is to use an exit status of 2 with a verbose level of 0. =item * If an exit status I<is> specified but the verbose level is I<not>, then the verbose level will default to 1 if the exit status is less than 2 and will default to 0 otherwise. =item * If an exit status is I<not> specified but verbose level I<is> given, then the exit status will default to 2 if the verbose level is 0 and will default to 1 otherwise. =item * If the exit status used is less than 2, then output is printed on C<STDOUT>. Otherwise output is printed on C<STDERR>. =back Although the above may seem a bit confusing at first, it generally does "the right thing" in most situations. This determination of the default values to use is based upon the following typical Unix conventions: =over 4 =item * An exit status of 0 implies "success". For example, B<diff(1)> exits with a status of 0 if the two files have the same contents. =item * An exit status of 1 implies possibly abnormal, but non-defective, program termination. For example, B<grep(1)> exits with a status of 1 if it did I<not> find a matching line for the given regular expression. =item * An exit status of 2 or more implies a fatal error. For example, B<ls(1)> exits with a status of 2 if you specify an illegal (unknown) option on the command line. =item * Usage messages issued as a result of bad command-line syntax should go to C<STDERR>. However, usage messages issued due to an explicit request to print usage (like specifying B<-help> on the command line) should go to C<STDOUT>, just in case the user wants to pipe the output to a pager (such as B<more(1)>). =item * If program usage has been explicitly requested by the user, it is often desirable to exit with a status of 1 (as opposed to 0) after issuing the user-requested usage message. It is also desirable to give a more verbose description of program usage in this case. =back B<pod2usage> doesn't force the above conventions upon you, but it will use them by default if you don't expressly tell it to do otherwise. The ability of B<pod2usage()> to accept a single number or a string makes it convenient to use as an innocent looking error message handling function: use strict; use Pod::Usage; use Getopt::Long; ## Parse options my %opt; GetOptions(\%opt, "help|?", "man", "flag1") || pod2usage(2); pod2usage(1) if ($opt{help}); pod2usage(-exitval => 0, -verbose => 2) if ($opt{man}); ## Check for too many filenames pod2usage("$0: Too many files given.\n") if (@ARGV > 1); Some user's however may feel that the above "economy of expression" is not particularly readable nor consistent and may instead choose to do something more like the following: use strict; use Pod::Usage qw(pod2usage); use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions); ## Parse options my %opt; GetOptions(\%opt, "help|?", "man", "flag1") || pod2usage(-verbose => 0); pod2usage(-verbose => 1) if ($opt{help}); pod2usage(-verbose => 2) if ($opt{man}); ## Check for too many filenames pod2usage(-verbose => 2, -message => "$0: Too many files given.\n") if (@ARGV > 1); As with all things in Perl, I<there's more than one way to do it>, and B<pod2usage()> adheres to this philosophy. If you are interested in seeing a number of different ways to invoke B<pod2usage> (although by no means exhaustive), please refer to L<"EXAMPLES">. =head2 Scripts The Pod::Usage distribution comes with a script pod2usage which offers a command line interface to the functionality of Pod::Usage. See L<pod2usage>. =head1 EXAMPLES Each of the following invocations of C<pod2usage()> will print just the "SYNOPSIS" section to C<STDERR> and will exit with a status of 2: pod2usage(); pod2usage(2); pod2usage(-verbose => 0); pod2usage(-exitval => 2); pod2usage({-exitval => 2, -output => \*STDERR}); pod2usage({-verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR}); pod2usage(-exitval => 2, -verbose => 0); pod2usage(-exitval => 2, -verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR); Each of the following invocations of C<pod2usage()> will print a message of "Syntax error." (followed by a newline) to C<STDERR>, immediately followed by just the "SYNOPSIS" section (also printed to C<STDERR>) and will exit with a status of 2: pod2usage("Syntax error."); pod2usage(-message => "Syntax error.", -verbose => 0); pod2usage(-msg => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2); pod2usage({-msg => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2, -output => \*STDERR}); pod2usage({-msg => "Syntax error.", -verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR}); pod2usage(-msg => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2, -verbose => 0); pod2usage(-message => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2, -verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR); Each of the following invocations of C<pod2usage()> will print the "SYNOPSIS" section and any "OPTIONS" and/or "ARGUMENTS" sections to C<STDOUT> and will exit with a status of 1: pod2usage(1); pod2usage(-verbose => 1); pod2usage(-exitval => 1); pod2usage({-exitval => 1, -output => \*STDOUT}); pod2usage({-verbose => 1, -output => \*STDOUT}); pod2usage(-exitval => 1, -verbose => 1); pod2usage(-exitval => 1, -verbose => 1, -output => \*STDOUT}); Each of the following invocations of C<pod2usage()> will print the entire manual page to C<STDOUT> and will exit with a status of 1: pod2usage(-verbose => 2); pod2usage({-verbose => 2, -output => \*STDOUT}); pod2usage(-exitval => 1, -verbose => 2); pod2usage({-exitval => 1, -verbose => 2, -output => \*STDOUT}); =head2 Recommended Use Most scripts should print some type of usage message to C<STDERR> when a command line syntax error is detected. They should also provide an option (usually C<-H> or C<-help>) to print a (possibly more verbose) usage message to C<STDOUT>. Some scripts may even wish to go so far as to provide a means of printing their complete documentation to C<STDOUT> (perhaps by allowing a C<-man> option). The following complete example uses B<Pod::Usage> in combination with B<Getopt::Long> to do all of these things: use strict; use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions); use Pod::Usage qw(pod2usage); my $man = 0; my $help = 0; ## Parse options and print usage if there is a syntax error, ## or if usage was explicitly requested. GetOptions('help|?' => \$help, man => \$man) or pod2usage(2); pod2usage(1) if $help; pod2usage(-verbose => 2) if $man; ## If no arguments were given, then allow STDIN to be used only ## if it's not connected to a terminal (otherwise print usage) pod2usage("$0: No files given.") if ((@ARGV == 0) && (-t STDIN)); __END__ =head1 NAME sample - Using GetOpt::Long and Pod::Usage =head1 SYNOPSIS sample [options] [file ...] Options: -help brief help message -man full documentation =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 =item B<-help> Print a brief help message and exits. =item B<-man> Prints the manual page and exits. =back =head1 DESCRIPTION B<This program> will read the given input file(s) and do something useful with the contents thereof. =cut =head1 CAVEATS By default, B<pod2usage()> will use C<$0> as the path to the pod input file. Unfortunately, not all systems on which Perl runs will set C<$0> properly (although if C<$0> isn't found, B<pod2usage()> will search C<$ENV{PATH}> or else the list specified by the C<-pathlist> option). If this is the case for your system, you may need to explicitly specify the path to the pod docs for the invoking script using something similar to the following: pod2usage(-exitval => 2, -input => "/path/to/your/pod/docs"); In the pathological case that a script is called via a relative path I<and> the script itself changes the current working directory (see L<perlfunc/chdir>) I<before> calling pod2usage, Pod::Usage will fail even on robust platforms. Don't do that. Or use L<FindBin> to locate the script: use FindBin; pod2usage(-input => $FindBin::Bin . "/" . $FindBin::Script); =head1 AUTHOR Please report bugs using L<http://rt.cpan.org>. Marek Rouchal E<lt>marekr@cpan.orgE<gt> Brad Appleton E<lt>bradapp@enteract.comE<gt> Based on code for B<Pod::Text::pod2text()> written by Tom Christiansen E<lt>tchrist@mox.perl.comE<gt> =head1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS rjbs for refactoring Pod::Usage to not use Pod::Parser any more. Steven McDougall E<lt>swmcd@world.std.comE<gt> for his help and patience with re-writing this manpage. =head1 SEE ALSO B<Pod::Usage> is now a standalone distribution, depending on L<Pod::Text> which in turn depends on L<Pod::Simple>. L<Pod::Perldoc>, L<Getopt::Long>, L<Pod::Find>, L<FindBin>, L<Pod::Text>, L<Pod::Text::Termcap>, L<Pod::Simple> =cut