Ubuntu Manpage: help2man - generate a simple manual page

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

       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
           other
           ENVIRONMENT
           FILES
           EXAMPLES
           AUTHOR
           REPORTING BUGS
           COPYRIGHT
           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 © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010,  2011,  2012,  2013,  2014,
       2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 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.