INTRODUCTION

Program p6doc is a command-line-interface (CLI) program that reads Perl 6 pod from installed modules' source code, in contrast to running perl6 --doc=MODULE programfile which reads Perl 6 pod from the named source file.

Note that p6doc may not be installed automatically depending upon how you installed Rakudo Perl 6. To install it use zef:

zef install p6doc

SYNOPSIS

p6doc [switches] [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

With no switches or arguments, p6doc lists its help to $*OUT (stdout):

You want to maintain the index?
To build an index for 'p6doc -f'
          p6doc build
 
To list the index keys
          p6doc list
 
To display module name(s) containing key
          p6doc lookup
 
To show where the index file lives
          p6doc path-to-index
 
What documentation do you want to read?
Examples: p6doc Str
          p6doc Str.split
          p6doc faq
          p6doc path/to/file
 
You can list some top level documents:
          p6doc -l
 
You can also look up specific method/routine/sub definitions:
          p6doc -f hyper
          p6doc -f Array.push
 
You can bypass the pager and print straight to stdout:
          p6doc -n Str

The text output can be captured and converted to other forms if desired.

If you want to use ANSI escape sequences, which will apply boldface and other enhancements to the output, you will have to set POD_TO_TEXT_ANSI, which is unset by default

export POD_TO_TEXT_ANSI=1

LIMITATIONS

Currently p6doc can only extract embedded Perl 6 pod from installed module source files (as listed in a distribution's META6.json file). It is planned to add a feature for p6doc (in conjunction with META6.json changes) to extract all Perl 6 pod in files included with the installed distribution.