Manual: podchecker

PODCHECKER(1)				      Perl Programmers Reference Guide				       PODCHECKER(1)

NAME
       podchecker - check the syntax of POD format documentation files

SYNOPSIS
       podchecker [-help] [-man] [-(no)warnings] [file ...]

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
       -help   Print a brief help message and exit.

       -man    Print the manual page and exit.

       -quiet  Do not print a success message.

       -warnings -nowarnings
	       Turn  on/off  printing  of  warnings. Repeating -warnings increases the warning level, i.e. more warnings are
	       printed. Currently increasing to level two causes flagging of unescaped "<,>" characters.

       file    The pathname of a POD file to syntax-check (defaults to standard input).

DESCRIPTION
       podchecker will read the given input files looking for POD syntax errors in the POD documentation and will print	 any
       errors it find to STDERR. At the end, it will print a status message indicating the number of errors found.

       Directories are ignored, an appropriate warning message is printed.

       podchecker  invokes  the podchecker() function exported by Pod::Checker Please see "podchecker()" in Pod::Checker for
       more details.

RETURN VALUE
       podchecker returns a 0 (zero) exit status if all specified POD files are ok.

ERRORS
       podchecker returns the exit status 1 if at least one of the given POD files has syntax errors.

       The status 2 indicates that at least one of the specified files does not contain any POD commands.

       Status 1 overrides status 2. If you want unambiguous results, call podchecker with one single argument only.

SEE ALSO
       Pod::Simple and Pod::Checker

AUTHORS
       Please report bugs using .

       Brad Appleton , Marek Rouchal 

       Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen 

perl v5.40.1						 2026-06-12					       PODCHECKER(1)