NAME Pod::Cpandoc - perldoc that works for modules you don't have installed SYNOPSIS cpandoc File::Find -- shows the documentation of your installed File::Find cpandoc Acme::BadExample -- works even if you don't have Acme::BadExample installed! cpandoc -v '$?' -- passes everything through to regular perldoc cpandoc -m Acme::BadExample | grep system -- options are respected even if the module was scraped vim `cpandoc -l Web::Scraper` -- getting the idea yet? DESCRIPTION "cpandoc" is a perl script that acts like "perldoc" except that if it would have bailed out with "No documentation found for "Uninstalled::Module"", it will instead scrape a CPAN index for the module's documentation. One important feature of "cpandoc" is that it *only* scrapes the live index if you do not have the module installed. So if you use "cpandoc" on a module you already have installed, then it will just read the already-installed documentation. This means that the version of the documentation matches up with the version of the code you have. As a fringe benefit, "cpandoc" will be fast for modules you've installed. :) All this means that you should be able to drop in "cpandoc" in place of "perldoc" and have everything keep working. See "SNEAKY INSTALL" for how to do this. If you set the environment variable "CPANDOC_FETCH" to a true value, then we will print a message to STDERR telling you that "cpandoc" is going to make a request against the live CPAN index. SNEAKY INSTALL cpanm Pod::Cpandoc then: alias perldoc=cpandoc or: function perldoc () { cpandoc "$@" } Now `perldoc Acme::BadExample` works! "perldoc" should continue to work for everything that you're used to, since "cpandoc" passes all options through to it. "cpandoc" is merely a subclass that falls back to scraping a CPAN index when it fails to find your queried file in @INC. SEE ALSO The sneaky install was inspired by . AUTHOR Shawn M Moore "sartak@gmail.com" COPYRIGHT Copyright 2011 Shawn M Moore. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.