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authorJim Cromie <jcromie@cpan.org>2004-08-02 03:15:23 -0600
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-08-03 09:39:35 +0000
commit307dc11379fefa6850036a968c505ca34e0fccb8 (patch)
treefde9dcfb56d1d8c8a311d45304ee69413e26bfa1 /pod
parent59c9df153f318eb57e9c2dabb5d780ea5b7073fa (diff)
downloadperl-307dc11379fefa6850036a968c505ca34e0fccb8.tar.gz
additional -V:foo tests
Message-ID: <410E5A8B.9030307@divsol.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23185
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perlrun.pod10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index e99729e672..3feab02c71 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -834,12 +834,14 @@ prints the version and patchlevel of your perl executable.
prints summary of the major perl configuration values and the current
values of @INC.
-=item B<-V:>I<name>
+=item B<-V:>I<configvar>
Prints to STDOUT the value of the named configuration variable(s),
-with multiples when your query looks like a regex.
-For example,
+with multiples when your configvar argument looks like a regex (has
+non-letters). For example:
+ $ perl -V:libc
+ libc='/lib/libc-2.2.4.so';
$ perl -V:lib.
libs='-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc';
libc='/lib/libc-2.2.4.so';
@@ -860,7 +862,7 @@ you to embed queries into shell commands. (mnemonic: PATH separator
compression-vars: zcat='' zip='zip' are here !
A leading colon removes the 'name=' part of the response, this allows
-you to map to the name you need.
+you to map to the name you need. (mnemonic: empty label)
$ echo "goodvfork="`./perl -Ilib -V::usevfork`
goodvfork=false;