Perl feature - Missing in FC4?

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Tue Aug 16 20:57:27 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 16 Aug 2005 21:09, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> I'm reading a few PERL books that mention the following:

Which books?

> ==========================
> You can search individual pages by using the name of the manpage as the
> command and passing a Perl regular expression as the search pattern:
>
> % perlop comma
> % perlfunc split
> % perlvar ARGV
> % perldiag 'assigned to typeglob'
>
> The perltoc command searches all the manpages' collective tables of
> contents.
> ========================
> Obviously, that would mean that perlop, perlfunc, etc are somehow
> executables or aliases for an executable, etc. Does Fedora have an RPM
> that I'm missing to provide this handy documentation feature?
>
> I tried a yum provides perlop but got nothing but the man pages and pod
> files.
>
> --
> Bill Gradwohl

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