Greetings... Okay, I found what I missed. For recursive and case-insensitive searches you must now specify arguments to perldoc: -r (recursive) -i (insensitive). Interestingly, this information is not contained within the man/perldoc page, but those and other arguments are documented if you type perldoc with no arguments... Looks like documentation for a few changes were overlooked.
- Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Bayard Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:36 AM To: Elston, Jeremy Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] Perldoc problem How does perl -V compare across the builds? "Elston, Jeremy" wrote: > > Greetings... > > Okay, this problem is finally annoying me to the point that I want a > solution. Since updating to newer Perl 5.6x versions my perldoc search > functionality has basically disappeared. > > Per the perldoc perldoc: > ----- > PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName > The item you want to look up. Nested modules (such as > "File::Basename") are specified either as > "File::Basename" or "File/Basename". You may also give > a descriptive name of a page, such as "perlfunc". You > may also give a partial or wrong-case name, such as > "basename" for "File::Basename", but this will be > slower, if there is more then one page with the same > partial name, you will only get the first one. > ----- > > What happens for me: > ----- > LOC: ~/work/udsum/sessions > s0840dev (jeremy) [123] $ perldoc basename > No documentation found for "basename". > > LOC: ~/work/udsum/sessions > s0840dev (jeremy) [124] $ perldoc File::Basename > > User Contributed Perl Documentation .1::File::Basename(3) > > NAME > fileparse - split a pathname into pieces > ...cut... > ----- > > Prior to my upgrade from 5.0x to 5.6x this functionality has always worked > properly. Is there some secret compile option, env variable, or something > that I am missing to restore proper perldoc functionality? I have compiled > Perl 5.6 on four separate Solaris systems. All at different times and some > with different minor versions, i.e. separate tarballs. > > Any thoughts? > > Jeremy Elston > Sr. Staff Unix System Administrator > InfrastructureManagement.QEDs > Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. > (602.977.4413 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > "Are you still here? What are you doing? There is nothing left to read. > The e-mail is over. Move on... Go on - get out of here. SHOO!" > > WARNING: All email sent to this address will be received by the Charles > Schwab Corporate email system and is subject to archival and review by > someone other than the recipient > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list. To unsubscribe go to http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/subscribe/perl-unix-users _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list. To unsubscribe go to http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/subscribe/perl-unix-users
