NAME

       pmdesc - print out version and whatis description of perl modules

DESCRIPTION

       Given one or more module names, show the version number (if known) and the 'whatis' line,
       that is, the NAME section's description, typically used for generation of whatis
       databases.

EXAMPLES

           $ pmdesc IO::Socket
           IO::Socket (1.25) - Object interface to socket communications

           $ oldperl pmdesc IO::Socket
           IO::Socket (1.1603) - Object interface to socket communications

           $ pmdesc `pminst -s | perl -lane 'print $F[1] if $F[0] =~ /site/'`
           XML::Parser::Expat (2.19) - Lowlevel access to James Clark's expat XML parser
           XML::Parser (2.19) - A perl module for parsing XML documents

RESTRICTIONS

       This only works on modules.  It should also work on filenames, but then it's a bit tricky
       finding out the package to call the VERSION method on.

SEE ALSO

       pmdesc(1) pminst(1) pmpath(1) pmvers(1)

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

       Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

       Copyright (C) 2006-2014, 2018 Mark Leighton Fisher.

LICENSE

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
       (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License".
       (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

       Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as
       pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".