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help2man

Produce simple man pages from an executable’s --help and --version output. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man.

  • Generate a man page for an executable:

help2man executable

  • Specify the “name” paragraph in the man page:

help2man executable --name name

  • Specify the section for the man page (defaults to 1):

help2man executable --section section

  • Output to a file instead of stdout:

help2man executable --output path/to/file

  • Display help:

help2man --help

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