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| 5 |   %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 | 
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
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| 9 |   <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
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| 10 | 
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| 11 |   <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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| 12 | 
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| 13 |   <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
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| 14 |     <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
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| 15 |   </indexterm>
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| 16 | 
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| 17 |   <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 |     <title/>
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| 19 | 
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| 20 |     <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report
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| 21 |     Language.</para>
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| 22 | 
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| 23 |   </sect2>
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| 24 | 
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| 25 |   <sect2 role="installation">
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| 26 |     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
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| 27 | 
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| 28 |     <para os="s1">The following sed causes <filename>DynaLoader.a</filename>
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| 29 |     to be built with -fPIC so it can be linked into a shared library
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| 30 |     later:</para>
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| 31 | 
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| 32 | <screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i -e "s@pldlflags=''@pldlflags=\"\$cccdlflags\"@g" \
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| 33 |     -e "s@static_target='static'@static_target='static_pic'@g" Makefile.SH</userinput></screen>
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| 34 | 
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| 35 |     <note os="a00">
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| 36 |       <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
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| 37 |       loopback device as well as set a hostname for some of the tests:</para>
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| 38 | 
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| 39 |       <screen><userinput>ip link set lo up
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| 40 | hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |     </note>
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| 42 | 
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| 43 |     <para os="a01">Before starting to configure, create a basic
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| 44 |     <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced in one
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| 45 |     of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite
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| 46 |     if you run that:</para>
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| 47 | 
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| 48 | <screen os="a02"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
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| 49 | 
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| 50 |     <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can
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| 51 |     run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick
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| 52 |     the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults
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| 53 |     that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
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| 54 | 
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| 55 | <screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
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| 56 |    -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
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| 57 |    -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
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| 58 |    -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
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| 59 |    -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
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| 60 | 
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| 61 |     <variablelist os="c">
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| 62 |       <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
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| 63 | 
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| 64 |       <varlistentry os="c1">
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| 65 |         <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
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| 66 |         <listitem>
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| 67 |           <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
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| 68 |           invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
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| 69 |         </listitem>
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| 70 |       </varlistentry>
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| 71 |       <varlistentry os="c2">
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| 72 |         <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
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| 73 |         <listitem>
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| 74 |           <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
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| 75 |           <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
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| 76 |           man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
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| 77 |         </listitem>
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| 78 |       </varlistentry>
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| 79 |       <varlistentry os="c3">
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| 80 |         <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
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| 81 |         <listitem>
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| 82 |           <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
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| 83 |         </listitem>
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| 84 |       </varlistentry>
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| 85 |     </variablelist>
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| 86 | 
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| 87 |     <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
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| 88 | 
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| 89 | <screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 90 | 
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| 91 |     <para os="h">To test the results, issue:
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| 92 |     <userinput>make test</userinput>.</para>
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| 93 | 
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| 94 |     <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
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| 95 | 
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| 96 | <screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 97 | 
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| 98 |   </sect2>
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| 99 | 
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| 100 |   <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
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| 101 |     <title>Contents of Perl</title>
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| 102 | 
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| 103 |     <segmentedlist>
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| 104 |       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 105 |       <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 106 | 
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| 107 |       <seglistitem>
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| 108 |         <seg>a2p, c2ph, cpan, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, libnetcfg,
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| 109 |         perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc,
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| 110 |         perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text,
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| 111 |         pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
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| 112 |         to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
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| 113 |         <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
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| 114 |       </seglistitem>
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| 115 |     </segmentedlist>
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| 116 | 
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| 117 |     <variablelist>
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| 118 |       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 119 |       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 120 |       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 121 | 
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| 122 |       <varlistentry id="a2p">
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| 123 |         <term><command>a2p</command></term>
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| 124 |         <listitem>
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| 125 |           <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
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| 126 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
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| 127 |             <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
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| 128 |           </indexterm>
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| 129 |         </listitem>
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| 130 |       </varlistentry>
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| 131 | 
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| 132 |       <varlistentry id="c2ph">
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| 133 |         <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
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| 134 |         <listitem>
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| 135 |           <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
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| 136 |           <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
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| 137 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
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| 138 |             <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
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| 139 |           </indexterm>
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| 140 |         </listitem>
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| 141 |       </varlistentry>
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| 142 | 
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| 143 |       <varlistentry id="cpan">
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| 144 |         <term><command>cpan</command></term>
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| 145 |         <listitem>
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| 146 |           <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
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| 147 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
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| 148 |             <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
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| 149 |           </indexterm>
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| 150 |         </listitem>
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| 151 |       </varlistentry>
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| 152 | 
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| 153 |       <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
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| 154 |         <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
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| 155 |         <listitem>
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| 156 |           <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
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| 157 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
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| 158 |             <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
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| 159 |           </indexterm>
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| 160 |         </listitem>
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| 161 |       </varlistentry>
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| 162 | 
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| 163 |       <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
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| 164 |         <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
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| 165 |         <listitem>
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| 166 |           <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
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| 167 |           Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
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| 168 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
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| 169 |             <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
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| 170 |           </indexterm>
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| 171 |         </listitem>
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| 172 |       </varlistentry>
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| 173 | 
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| 174 |       <varlistentry id="find2perl">
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| 175 |         <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
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| 176 |         <listitem>
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| 177 |           <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
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| 178 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
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| 179 |             <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
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| 180 |           </indexterm>
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| 181 |         </listitem>
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| 182 |       </varlistentry>
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| 183 | 
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| 184 |       <varlistentry id="h2ph">
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| 185 |         <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
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| 186 |         <listitem>
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| 187 |           <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
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| 188 |           files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
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| 189 |           files</para>
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| 190 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
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| 191 |             <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
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| 192 |           </indexterm>
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| 193 |         </listitem>
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| 194 |       </varlistentry>
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| 195 | 
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| 196 |       <varlistentry id="h2xs">
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| 197 |         <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
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| 198 |         <listitem>
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| 199 |           <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
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| 200 |           files to Perl extensions</para>
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| 201 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
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| 202 |             <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
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| 203 |           </indexterm>
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| 204 |         </listitem>
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| 205 |       </varlistentry>
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| 206 | 
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| 207 |       <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
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| 208 |         <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
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| 209 |         <listitem>
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| 210 |           <para>Can be used to configure the
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| 211 |           <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
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| 212 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
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| 213 |             <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
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| 214 |           </indexterm>
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| 215 |         </listitem>
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| 216 |       </varlistentry>
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| 217 | 
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| 218 |       <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
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| 219 |         <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
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| 220 |         <listitem>
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| 221 |           <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
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| 222 |           and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
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| 223 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
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| 224 |             <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
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| 225 |           </indexterm>
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| 226 |         </listitem>
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| 227 |       </varlistentry>
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| 228 | 
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| 229 |       <varlistentry id="perl">
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| 230 |         <term><command>perl</command></term>
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| 231 |         <listitem>
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| 232 |           <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
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| 233 |           <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
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| 234 |           swiss-army-knife language</para>
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| 235 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
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| 236 |             <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
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| 237 |           </indexterm>
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| 238 |         </listitem>
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| 239 |       </varlistentry>
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| 240 | 
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| 241 |       <varlistentry id="perl-version">
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| 242 |         <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
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| 243 |         <listitem>
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| 244 |           <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
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| 245 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
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| 246 |             <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
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| 247 |           </indexterm>
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| 248 |         </listitem>
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| 249 |       </varlistentry>
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| 250 | 
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| 251 |       <varlistentry id="perlbug">
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| 252 |         <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
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| 253 |         <listitem>
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| 254 |           <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
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| 255 |           with it, and mail them</para>
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| 256 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
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| 257 |             <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
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| 258 |           </indexterm>
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| 259 |         </listitem>
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| 260 |       </varlistentry>
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| 261 | 
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| 262 |       <varlistentry id="perlcc">
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| 263 |         <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
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| 264 |         <listitem>
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| 265 |           <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
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| 266 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc">
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| 267 |             <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary>
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| 268 |           </indexterm>
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| 269 |         </listitem>
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| 270 |       </varlistentry>
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| 271 | 
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| 272 |       <varlistentry id="perldoc">
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| 273 |         <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
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| 274 |         <listitem>
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| 275 |           <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
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| 276 |           in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
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| 277 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
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| 278 |             <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
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| 279 |           </indexterm>
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| 280 |         </listitem>
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| 281 |       </varlistentry>
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| 282 | 
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| 283 |       <varlistentry id="perlivp">
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| 284 |         <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
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| 285 |         <listitem>
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| 286 |           <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
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| 287 |           verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
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| 288 |           correctly</para>
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| 289 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
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| 290 |             <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
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| 291 |           </indexterm>
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| 292 |         </listitem>
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| 293 |       </varlistentry>
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| 294 | 
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| 295 |       <varlistentry id="piconv">
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| 296 |         <term><command>piconv</command></term>
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| 297 |         <listitem>
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| 298 |           <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
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| 299 |           <command>iconv</command></para>
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| 300 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
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| 301 |             <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
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| 302 |           </indexterm>
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| 303 |         </listitem>
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| 304 |       </varlistentry>
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| 305 | 
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| 306 |       <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
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| 307 |         <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
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| 308 |         <listitem>
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| 309 |           <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
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| 310 |           <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
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| 311 |           <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
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| 312 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
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| 313 |             <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
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| 314 |           </indexterm>
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| 315 |         </listitem>
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| 316 |       </varlistentry>
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| 317 | 
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| 318 |       <varlistentry id="pod2html">
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| 319 |         <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
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| 320 |         <listitem>
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| 321 |           <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
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| 322 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
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| 323 |             <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
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| 324 |           </indexterm>
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| 325 |         </listitem>
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| 326 |       </varlistentry>
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| 327 | 
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| 328 |       <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
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| 329 |         <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
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| 330 |         <listitem>
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| 331 |           <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
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| 332 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
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| 333 |             <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
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| 334 |           </indexterm>
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| 335 |         </listitem>
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| 336 |       </varlistentry>
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| 337 | 
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| 338 |       <varlistentry id="pod2man">
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| 339 |         <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
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| 340 |         <listitem>
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| 341 |           <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
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| 342 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
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| 343 |             <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
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| 344 |           </indexterm>
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| 345 |         </listitem>
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| 346 |       </varlistentry>
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| 347 | 
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| 348 |       <varlistentry id="pod2text">
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| 349 |         <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
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| 350 |         <listitem>
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| 351 |           <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
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| 352 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
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| 353 |             <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
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| 354 |           </indexterm>
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| 355 |         </listitem>
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| 356 |       </varlistentry>
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| 357 | 
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| 358 |       <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
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| 359 |         <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
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| 360 |         <listitem>
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| 361 |           <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
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| 362 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
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| 363 |             <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
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| 364 |           </indexterm>
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| 365 |         </listitem>
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| 366 |       </varlistentry>
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| 367 | 
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| 368 |       <varlistentry id="podchecker">
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| 369 |         <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
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| 370 |         <listitem>
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| 371 |           <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
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| 372 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
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| 373 |             <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
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| 374 |           </indexterm>
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| 375 |         </listitem>
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| 376 |       </varlistentry>
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| 377 | 
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| 378 |       <varlistentry id="podselect">
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| 379 |         <term><command>podselect</command></term>
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| 380 |         <listitem>
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| 381 |           <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
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| 382 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
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| 383 |             <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
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| 384 |           </indexterm>
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| 385 |         </listitem>
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| 386 |       </varlistentry>
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| 387 | 
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| 388 |       <varlistentry id="prove">
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| 389 |         <term><command>prove</command></term>
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| 390 |         <listitem>
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| 391 |           <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
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| 392 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
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| 393 |             <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
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| 394 |           </indexterm>
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| 395 |         </listitem>
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| 396 |       </varlistentry>
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| 397 | 
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| 398 |       <varlistentry id="psed">
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| 399 |         <term><command>psed</command></term>
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| 400 |         <listitem>
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| 401 |           <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
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| 402 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
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| 403 |             <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
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| 404 |           </indexterm>
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| 405 |         </listitem>
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| 406 |       </varlistentry>
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| 407 | 
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| 408 |       <varlistentry id="pstruct">
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| 409 |         <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
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| 410 |         <listitem>
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| 411 |           <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
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| 412 |           stabs</para>
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| 413 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
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| 414 |             <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
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| 415 |           </indexterm>
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| 416 |         </listitem>
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| 417 |       </varlistentry>
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| 418 | 
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| 419 |       <varlistentry id="s2p">
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| 420 |         <term><command>s2p</command></term>
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| 421 |         <listitem>
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| 422 |           <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
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| 423 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
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| 424 |             <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
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| 425 |           </indexterm>
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| 426 |         </listitem>
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| 427 |       </varlistentry>
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| 428 | 
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| 429 |       <varlistentry id="splain">
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| 430 |         <term><command>splain</command></term>
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| 431 |         <listitem>
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| 432 |           <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
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| 433 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
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| 434 |             <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
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| 435 |           </indexterm>
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| 436 |         </listitem>
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| 437 |       </varlistentry>
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| 438 | 
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| 439 |       <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
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| 440 |         <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
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| 441 |         <listitem>
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| 442 |           <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
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| 443 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
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| 444 |             <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
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| 445 |           </indexterm>
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| 446 |         </listitem>
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| 447 |       </varlistentry>
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| 448 | 
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| 449 |     </variablelist>
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| 450 | 
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| 451 |   </sect2>
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| 452 | 
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| 453 | </sect1>
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