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 <http://rt.cpan.org>.

Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>, Marek Rouchal <marekr@cpan.org>

Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>

2025-10-12 | perl v5.40.1