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July 21, 2009

How to search a perl function’s man page

by viggy — Categories: perl — Tags: , , — Leave a comment

If you know the name of the function and you want to see the man page for that function, then you can use the following command.

perldoc -f “function name” //without quotes

for example,

perldoc -f our
perldoc -f sysopen

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