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.

       -warnings -nowarnings
               Turn on/off printing of warnings.

       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 sta­
       tus message indicating the number of errors found.

       podchecker invokes the ppooddcchheecckkeerr(()) function exported by
       Pod::Checker Please see the podchecker() entry in the
       Pod::Checker manpage 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 unambigouus
       results, call podchecker with one single argument only.


SEE ALSO

       the Pod::Parser manpage and the Pod::Checker manpage


AUTHORS

       Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>, Marek Rouchal
       <marek@saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de>

       Based on code for PPoodd::::TTeexxtt::::ppoodd22tteexxtt(1) written by Tom
       Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>


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