NAME

       App::Cmd::Command::help - display a command's help screen

VERSION

       version 0.335

DESCRIPTION

       This command will either list all of the application commands and their abstracts, or
       display the usage screen for a subcommand with its description.

PERL VERSION

       This library should run on perls released even a long time ago.  It should work on any
       version of perl released in the last five years.

       Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum
       required version will not be increased.  The version may be increased for any reason, and
       there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

USAGE

       The help text is generated from three sources:

       •   The "usage_desc" method

       •   The "description" method

       •   The "opt_spec" data structure

       The "usage_desc" method provides the opening usage line, following the specification
       described in Getopt::Long::Descriptive.  In some cases, the default "usage_desc" in
       App::Cmd::Command may be sufficient and you will only need to override it to provide
       additional command line usage information.

       The "opt_spec" data structure is used with Getopt::Long::Descriptive to generate the
       description of the options.

       Subcommand classes should override the "discription" method to provide additional
       information that is prepended before the option descriptions.

       For example, consider the following subcommand module:

         package YourApp::Command::initialize;

         # This is the default from App::Cmd::Command
         sub usage_desc {
           my ($self) = @_;
           my $desc = $self->SUPER::usage_desc; # "%c COMMAND %o"
           return "$desc [DIRECTORY]";
         }

         sub description {
           return "The initialize command prepares the application...";
         }

         sub opt_spec {
           return (
             [ "skip-refs|R",  "skip reference checks during init", ],
             [ "values|v=s@",  "starting values", { default => [ 0, 1, 3 ] } ],
           );
         }

         ...

       That module would generate help output like this:

         $ yourapp help initialize
         yourapp initialize [-Rv] [long options...] [DIRECTORY]

         The initialize command prepares the application...

               --help            This usage screen
               -R --skip-refs    skip reference checks during init
               -v --values       starting values

AUTHOR

       Ricardo Signes <cpan@semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Ricardo Signes.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.