help2man

Produce simple man pages from an executable’s --help and --version output. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#Invoking-help2man.

• 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