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.TH PERLUTIL 1 "2006-01-07" "perl v5.8.8" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
perlutil \- utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
Along with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a
range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities
which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install
process. This document exists to list all of these utilities, explain
what they are for and provide pointers to each module's documentation,
.Sh "\s-1DOCUMENTATION\s0"
.IX Subsection "DOCUMENTATION"
The main interface to Perl's documentation is \f(CW\*(C`perldoc\*(C'\fR, although
if you're reading this, it's more than likely that you've already found
it. \fIperldoc\fR will extract and format the documentation from any file
in the current directory, any Perl module installed on the system, or
any of the standard documentation pages, such as this one. Use
\&\f(CW\*(C`perldoc <name>\*(C'\fR to get information on any of the utilities
described in this document.
.IP "pod2man and pod2text" 3
.IX Item "pod2man and pod2text"
If it's run from a terminal, \fIperldoc\fR will usually call \fIpod2man\fR to
translate \s-1POD\s0 (Plain Old Documentation \- see perlpod for an
explanation) into a manpage, and then run \fIman\fR to display it; if
\&\fIman\fR isn't available, \fIpod2text\fR will be used instead and the output
piped through your favourite pager.
.IP "pod2html and pod2latex" 3
.IX Item "pod2html and pod2latex"
As well as these two, there are two other converters: \fIpod2html\fR will
produce \s-1HTML\s0 pages from \s-1POD\s0, and \fIpod2latex\fR, which produces LaTeX
If you just want to know how to use the utilities described here,
\&\fIpod2usage\fR will just extract the \*(L"\s-1USAGE\s0\*(R" section; some of
the utilities will automatically call \fIpod2usage\fR on themselves when
you call them with \f(CW\*(C`\-help\*(C'\fR.
\&\fIpod2usage\fR is a special case of \fIpodselect\fR, a utility to extract
named sections from documents written in \s-1POD\s0. For instance, while
utilities have \*(L"\s-1USAGE\s0\*(R" sections, Perl modules usually have \*(L"\s-1SYNOPSIS\s0\*(R"
sections: \f(CW\*(C`podselect \-s "SYNOPSIS" ...\*(C'\fR will extract this section for
If you're writing your own documentation in \s-1POD\s0, the \fIpodchecker\fR
utility will look for errors in your markup.
\&\fIsplain\fR is an interface to perldiag \- paste in your error message
to it, and it'll explain it for you.
The \f(CW\*(C`roffitall\*(C'\fR utility is not installed on your system but lives in
the \fIpod/\fR directory of your Perl source kit; it converts all the
documentation from the distribution to \fI*roff\fR format, and produces a
typeset PostScript or text file of the whole lot.
.IX Subsection "CONVERTORS"
To help you convert legacy programs to Perl, we've included three
\&\fIa2p\fR converts \fIawk\fR scripts to Perl programs; for example, \f(CW\*(C`a2p \-F:\*(C'\fR
on the simple \fIawk\fR script \f(CW\*(C`{print $2}\*(C'\fR will produce a Perl program
\& ($Fld1,$Fld2) = split(/[:\en]/, $_, 9999);
Similarly, \fIs2p\fR converts \fIsed\fR scripts to Perl programs. \fIs2p\fR run
on \f(CW\*(C`s/foo/bar\*(C'\fR will produce a Perl program based around this:
Finally, \fIfind2perl\fR translates \f(CW\*(C`find\*(C'\fR commands to Perl equivalents which
use the File::Find module. As an example,
\&\f(CW\*(C`find2perl . \-user root \-perm 4000 \-print\*(C'\fR produces the following callback
subroutine for \f(CW\*(C`File::Find\*(C'\fR:
\& my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid);
\& (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) &&
\& $uid == $uid{'root'}) &&
\& (($mode & 0777) == 04000);
As well as these filters for converting other languages, the
pl2pm utility will help you convert old-style Perl 4 libraries to
.IX Subsection "Administration"
To display and change the libnet configuration run the libnetcfg command.
.IX Subsection "Development"
There are a set of utilities which help you in developing Perl programs,
and in particular, extending Perl with C.
\&\fIperlbug\fR is the recommended way to report bugs in the perl interpreter
itself or any of the standard library modules back to the developers;
please read through the documentation for \fIperlbug\fR thoroughly before
using it to submit a bug report.
Back before Perl had the \s-1XS\s0 system for connecting with C libraries,
programmers used to get library constants by reading through the C
header files. You may still see \f(CW\*(C`require 'syscall.ph'\*(C'\fR or similar
around \- the \fI.ph\fR file should be created by running \fIh2ph\fR on the
corresponding \fI.h\fR file. See the \fIh2ph\fR documentation for more on how
to convert a whole bunch of header files at once.
.IX Item "c2ph and pstruct"
\&\fIc2ph\fR and \fIpstruct\fR, which are actually the same program but behave
differently depending on how they are called, provide another way of
getting at C with Perl \- they'll convert C structures and union declarations
to Perl code. This is deprecated in favour of \fIh2xs\fR these days.
\&\fIh2xs\fR converts C header files into \s-1XS\s0 modules, and will try and write
as much glue between C libraries and Perl modules as it can. It's also
very useful for creating skeletons of pure Perl modules.
Perl comes with a profiler, the \fIDevel::DProf\fR module. The
\&\fIdprofpp\fR utility analyzes the output of this profiler and tells you
which subroutines are taking up the most run time. See Devel::DProf
\&\fIperlcc\fR is the interface to the experimental Perl compiler suite.
.Sh "\s-1SEE\s0 \s-1ALSO\s0"
.IX Subsection "SEE ALSO"
perldoc, pod2man, perlpod,
pod2html, pod2usage, podselect,
podchecker, splain, perldiag,
roffitall, a2p, s2p, find2perl,
File::Find, pl2pm, perlbug,
h2ph, c2ph, h2xs, dprofpp,
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