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POD2HTML(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide POD2HTML(1)

NAME

pod2html - convert .pod files to .html files

SYNOPSIS


pod2html --help --htmldir=<name> --htmlroot=<URL>
--infile=<name> --outfile=<name>
--podpath=<name>:...:<name> --podroot=<name>
--cachedir=<name> --flush --recurse --norecurse
--quiet --noquiet --verbose --noverbose
--index --noindex --backlink --nobacklink
--header --noheader --poderrors --nopoderrors
--css=<URL> --title=<name>

DESCRIPTION

Converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to HTML format.

ARGUMENTS

pod2html takes the following arguments:
help

--help
 
Displays the usage message.
htmldir

--htmldir=name
 
Sets the directory to which all cross references in the resulting HTML file will be relative. Not passing this causes all links to be absolute since this is the value that tells Pod::Html the root of the documentation tree.
 
Do not use this and --htmlroot in the same call to pod2html; they are mutually exclusive.
htmlroot

--htmlroot=URL
 
Sets the base URL for the HTML files. When cross-references are made, the HTML root is prepended to the URL.
 
Do not use this if relative links are desired: use --htmldir instead.
 
Do not pass both this and --htmldir to pod2html; they are mutually exclusive.
infile

--infile=name
 
Specify the pod file to convert. Input is taken from STDIN if no infile is specified.
outfile

--outfile=name
 
Specify the HTML file to create. Output goes to STDOUT if no outfile is specified.
podroot

--podroot=name
 
Specify the base directory for finding library pods.
podpath

--podpath=name:...:name
 
Specify which subdirectories of the podroot contain pod files whose HTML converted forms can be linked-to in cross-references.
cachedir

--cachedir=name
 
Specify which directory is used for storing cache. Default directory is the current working directory.
flush

--flush
 
Flush the cache.
backlink

--backlink
 
Turn =head1 directives into links pointing to the top of the HTML file.
nobacklink

--nobacklink
 
Do not turn =head1 directives into links pointing to the top of the HTML file (default behaviour).
header

--header
 
Create header and footer blocks containing the text of the "NAME" section.
noheader

--noheader
 
Do not create header and footer blocks containing the text of the "NAME" section (default behaviour).
poderrors

--poderrors
 
Include a "POD ERRORS" section in the outfile if there were any POD errors in the infile (default behaviour).
nopoderrors

--nopoderrors
 
Do not include a "POD ERRORS" section in the outfile if there were any POD errors in the infile.
index

--index
 
Generate an index at the top of the HTML file (default behaviour).
noindex

--noindex
 
Do not generate an index at the top of the HTML file.
recurse

--recurse
 
Recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath (default behaviour).
norecurse

--norecurse
 
Do not recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath.
css

--css=URL
 
Specify the URL of cascading style sheet to link from resulting HTML file. Default is none style sheet.
title

--title=title
 
Specify the title of the resulting HTML file.
quiet

--quiet
 
Don't display mostly harmless warning messages.
noquiet

--noquiet
 
Display mostly harmless warning messages (default behaviour). But this is not the same as "verbose" mode.
verbose

--verbose
 
Display progress messages.
noverbose

--noverbose
 
Do not display progress messages (default behaviour).

AUTHOR

Tom Christiansen, <tchrist@perl.com>.

BUGS

See Pod::Html for a list of known bugs in the translator.

SEE ALSO

perlpod, Pod::Html

COPYRIGHT

This program is distributed under the Artistic License.
2025-05-14 perl v5.32.0
Copyright 2011-2025 Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen and contributors.
Sortix's source code is free software under the ISC license.
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