cheat-sheet of help2man
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help2man is a tool to produce simple man pages from an executable’s --help and --version output.
Generate a man page for an executable:
help2man executable
Specify the “name” paragraph in the man page:
help2man executable [-n|--name] name
Specify the section for the man page (defaults to 1):
help2man executable [-s|--section] section
Output to a file instead of stdout:
help2man executable [-o|--output] path/to/file
Display help:
help2man --help
More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man .
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