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.





Licensing

License

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Notes

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Genium

Verified on

1 February 2022




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Brendan O'Dea Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
FTPDownloadhttps://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/
WikidataGeneralhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60918168
Generalhttps://translationproject.org/domain/help2man.html
DebianDeveloperhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/help2man
FTPDownloadhttps://ftpmirror.gnu.org/help2man/
DebianVCS Repository Webviewhttps://salsa.debian.org/bod/help2man/


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to useLocale_gettext Perl module
Required to usegettext

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




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"Debian" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.


"Wikidata" is not in the list (General, Help, Bug Tracking, Support, Developer) of allowed values for the "Resource audience" property.





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