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 HELP2MAN(1)                   help2man 1.47.4                   HELP2MAN(1)
 User Commands                                                 User Commands

                                  May 2016



 NAME
      help2man - generate a simple manual page

 SYNOPSIS
      help2man [,OPTION/]... ,EXECUTABLE/

 DESCRIPTION
      `help2man' generates a man page out of `--help' and `--version'
      output.

      -n, --name=,STRING/
           description for the NAME paragraph

      -s, --section=,SECTION/
           section number for manual page (1, 6, 8)

      -m, --manual=,TEXT/
           name of manual (User Commands, ...)

      -S, --source=,TEXT/
           source of program (FSF, Debian, ...)

      -L, --locale=,STRING/
           select locale (default "C")

      -i, --include=,FILE/
           include material from `FILE'

      -I, --opt-include=,FILE/
           include material from `FILE' if it exists

      -o, --output=,FILE/
           send output to `FILE'

      -p, --info-page=,TEXT/
           name of Texinfo manual

      -N, --no-info
           suppress pointer to Texinfo manual

      -l, --libtool
           exclude the `lt-' from the program name

      --help
           print this help, then exit

      --version
           print version number, then exit




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 HELP2MAN(1)                   help2man 1.47.4                   HELP2MAN(1)
 User Commands                                                 User Commands

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      EXECUTABLE should accept `--help' and `--version' options and produce
      output on stdout although alternatives may be specified using:

      -h, --help-option=,STRING/
           help option string

      -v, --version-option=,STRING/
           version option string

      --version-string=,STRING/
           version string

      --no-discard-stderr
           include stderr when parsing option output

 INCLUDE FILES
      Additional material may be included in the generated output with the
      --include and --opt-include options.  The format is simple:

          [section]
          text

          /pattern/
          text

      Blocks of verbatim *roff text are inserted into the output either at
      the start of the given [section] (case insensitive), or after a
      paragraph matching /pattern/.

      Patterns use the Perl regular expression syntax and may be followed by
      the i, s or m modifiers (see perlre(1)).

      Lines before the first section or pattern which begin with `-' are
      processed as options.  Anything else is silently ignored and may be
      used for comments, RCS keywords and the like.

      The section output order (for those included) is:

          NAME
          SYNOPSIS
          DESCRIPTION
          OPTIONS
          ENVIRONMENT
          FILES
          EXAMPLES
          other
          AUTHOR
          REPORTING BUGS
          COPYRIGHT



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 HELP2MAN(1)                   help2man 1.47.4                   HELP2MAN(1)
 User Commands                                                 User Commands

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          SEE ALSO

      Any [NAME] or [SYNOPSIS] sections appearing in the include file will
      replace what would have automatically been produced (although you can
      still override the former with --name if required).

      Other sections are prepended to the automatically produced output for
      the standard sections given above, or included at other (above) in the
      order they were encountered in the include file.

      Placement of the text within the section may be explicitly requested
      by using the syntax [<section], [=section] or [>section] to place the
      additional text before, in place of, or after the default output
      respectively.

 AVAILABILITY
      The latest version of this distribution is available on-line from:

          ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/

 AUTHOR
      Written by Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>

 REPORTING BUGS
      Report bugs to <bug-help2man@gnu.org>.

 COPYRIGHT
      Copyright c 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
      2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation,
      Inc.
      This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
      is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
      PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 SEE ALSO
      The full documentation for help2man is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
      If the info and help2man programs are properly installed at your site,
      the command

           info help2man

      should give you access to the complete manual.










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