Help2man

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GNU help2man

https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
Generate manual pages from program files.

Help2man is a program that converts the output of standard --help and --version command-line arguments into a manual page automatically.

It lets developers include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document. Since Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project, this also provides a way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while still providing some useful information.

This is a GNU package:help2man

Download

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.49.3.tar.xz

version 1.49.3 (stable)
released on 15 December 2022

OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.49.3.tar.xz.sig

VCS Checkout

git clone https://salsa.debian.org/bod/help2man.git

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:perl
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Text-creation:documentation-tool
• Use:text-creation
• Works-with:text

Licensing

License

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Notes

License

GPLv3orlater

Verified by

Genium

Verified on

1 February 2022

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Brendan O'Dea	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
FTP	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/
Wikidata	General	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60918168
	General	https://translationproject.org/domain/help2man.html
Debian	Developer	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/help2man
FTP	Download	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/help2man/
Debian	VCS Repository Webview	https://salsa.debian.org/bod/help2man/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	Locale_gettext Perl module
Required to use	gettext

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 8 January 2023.

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