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131.IX Title "PERLUTIL 1"
132.TH PERLUTIL 1 "2006-01-07" "perl v5.8.8" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
133.SH "NAME"
134perlutil \- utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
135.SH "DESCRIPTION"
136.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
137Along with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a
138range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities
139which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install
140process. This document exists to list all of these utilities, explain
141what they are for and provide pointers to each module's documentation,
142if appropriate.
143.Sh "\s-1DOCUMENTATION\s0"
144.IX Subsection "DOCUMENTATION"
145.IP "perldoc" 3
146.IX Item "perldoc"
147The main interface to Perl's documentation is \f(CW\*(C`perldoc\*(C'\fR, although
148if you're reading this, it's more than likely that you've already found
149it. \fIperldoc\fR will extract and format the documentation from any file
150in the current directory, any Perl module installed on the system, or
151any of the standard documentation pages, such as this one. Use
152\&\f(CW\*(C`perldoc <name>\*(C'\fR to get information on any of the utilities
153described in this document.
154.IP "pod2man and pod2text" 3
155.IX Item "pod2man and pod2text"
156If it's run from a terminal, \fIperldoc\fR will usually call \fIpod2man\fR to
157translate \s-1POD\s0 (Plain Old Documentation \- see perlpod for an
158explanation) into a manpage, and then run \fIman\fR to display it; if
159\&\fIman\fR isn't available, \fIpod2text\fR will be used instead and the output
160piped through your favourite pager.
161.IP "pod2html and pod2latex" 3
162.IX Item "pod2html and pod2latex"
163As well as these two, there are two other converters: \fIpod2html\fR will
164produce \s-1HTML\s0 pages from \s-1POD\s0, and \fIpod2latex\fR, which produces LaTeX
165files.
166.IP "pod2usage" 3
167.IX Item "pod2usage"
168If you just want to know how to use the utilities described here,
169\&\fIpod2usage\fR will just extract the \*(L"\s-1USAGE\s0\*(R" section; some of
170the utilities will automatically call \fIpod2usage\fR on themselves when
171you call them with \f(CW\*(C`\-help\*(C'\fR.
172.IP "podselect" 3
173.IX Item "podselect"
174\&\fIpod2usage\fR is a special case of \fIpodselect\fR, a utility to extract
175named sections from documents written in \s-1POD\s0. For instance, while
176utilities have \*(L"\s-1USAGE\s0\*(R" sections, Perl modules usually have \*(L"\s-1SYNOPSIS\s0\*(R"
177sections: \f(CW\*(C`podselect \-s "SYNOPSIS" ...\*(C'\fR will extract this section for
178a given file.
179.IP "podchecker" 3
180.IX Item "podchecker"
181If you're writing your own documentation in \s-1POD\s0, the \fIpodchecker\fR
182utility will look for errors in your markup.
183.IP "splain" 3
184.IX Item "splain"
185\&\fIsplain\fR is an interface to perldiag \- paste in your error message
186to it, and it'll explain it for you.
187.IP "roffitall" 3
188.IX Item "roffitall"
189The \f(CW\*(C`roffitall\*(C'\fR utility is not installed on your system but lives in
190the \fIpod/\fR directory of your Perl source kit; it converts all the
191documentation from the distribution to \fI*roff\fR format, and produces a
192typeset PostScript or text file of the whole lot.
193.Sh "\s-1CONVERTORS\s0"
194.IX Subsection "CONVERTORS"
195To help you convert legacy programs to Perl, we've included three
196conversion filters:
197.IP "a2p" 3
198.IX Item "a2p"
199\&\fIa2p\fR converts \fIawk\fR scripts to Perl programs; for example, \f(CW\*(C`a2p \-F:\*(C'\fR
200on the simple \fIawk\fR script \f(CW\*(C`{print $2}\*(C'\fR will produce a Perl program
201based around this code:
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205\& ($Fld1,$Fld2) = split(/[:\en]/, $_, 9999);
206\& print $Fld2;
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209.IP "s2p" 3
210.IX Item "s2p"
211Similarly, \fIs2p\fR converts \fIsed\fR scripts to Perl programs. \fIs2p\fR run
212on \f(CW\*(C`s/foo/bar\*(C'\fR will produce a Perl program based around this:
213.Sp
214.Vb 5
215\& while (<>) {
216\& chomp;
217\& s/foo/bar/g;
218\& print if $printit;
219\& }
220.Ve
221.IP "find2perl" 3
222.IX Item "find2perl"
223Finally, \fIfind2perl\fR translates \f(CW\*(C`find\*(C'\fR commands to Perl equivalents which
224use the File::Find module. As an example,
225\&\f(CW\*(C`find2perl . \-user root \-perm 4000 \-print\*(C'\fR produces the following callback
226subroutine for \f(CW\*(C`File::Find\*(C'\fR:
227.Sp
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230\& my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid);
231\& (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) &&
232\& $uid == $uid{'root'}) &&
233\& (($mode & 0777) == 04000);
234\& print("$name\en");
235\& }
236.Ve
237.PP
238As well as these filters for converting other languages, the
239pl2pm utility will help you convert old-style Perl 4 libraries to
240new-style Perl5 modules.
241.Sh "Administration"
242.IX Subsection "Administration"
243.IP "libnetcfg" 3
244.IX Item "libnetcfg"
245To display and change the libnet configuration run the libnetcfg command.
246.Sh "Development"
247.IX Subsection "Development"
248There are a set of utilities which help you in developing Perl programs,
249and in particular, extending Perl with C.
250.IP "perlbug" 3
251.IX Item "perlbug"
252\&\fIperlbug\fR is the recommended way to report bugs in the perl interpreter
253itself or any of the standard library modules back to the developers;
254please read through the documentation for \fIperlbug\fR thoroughly before
255using it to submit a bug report.
256.IP "h2ph" 3
257.IX Item "h2ph"
258Back before Perl had the \s-1XS\s0 system for connecting with C libraries,
259programmers used to get library constants by reading through the C
260header files. You may still see \f(CW\*(C`require 'syscall.ph'\*(C'\fR or similar
261around \- the \fI.ph\fR file should be created by running \fIh2ph\fR on the
262corresponding \fI.h\fR file. See the \fIh2ph\fR documentation for more on how
263to convert a whole bunch of header files at once.
264.IP "c2ph and pstruct" 3
265.IX Item "c2ph and pstruct"
266\&\fIc2ph\fR and \fIpstruct\fR, which are actually the same program but behave
267differently depending on how they are called, provide another way of
268getting at C with Perl \- they'll convert C structures and union declarations
269to Perl code. This is deprecated in favour of \fIh2xs\fR these days.
270.IP "h2xs" 3
271.IX Item "h2xs"
272\&\fIh2xs\fR converts C header files into \s-1XS\s0 modules, and will try and write
273as much glue between C libraries and Perl modules as it can. It's also
274very useful for creating skeletons of pure Perl modules.
275.IP "dprofpp" 3
276.IX Item "dprofpp"
277Perl comes with a profiler, the \fIDevel::DProf\fR module. The
278\&\fIdprofpp\fR utility analyzes the output of this profiler and tells you
279which subroutines are taking up the most run time. See Devel::DProf
280for more information.
281.IP "perlcc" 3
282.IX Item "perlcc"
283\&\fIperlcc\fR is the interface to the experimental Perl compiler suite.
284.Sh "\s-1SEE\s0 \s-1ALSO\s0"
285.IX Subsection "SEE ALSO"
286perldoc, pod2man, perlpod,
287pod2html, pod2usage, podselect,
288podchecker, splain, perldiag,
289roffitall, a2p, s2p, find2perl,
290File::Find, pl2pm, perlbug,
291h2ph, c2ph, h2xs, dprofpp,
292Devel::DProf, perlcc