---
name: "hc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "httpcode"
version: "0.6-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hc"
---

# hc(1)

explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line

## NAME

httpcode - explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line

## SYNOPSIS

**hc** \[ options \] \[ code \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **httpcode** commands.

**httpcode** is a little utility that explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-s SEARCH, --search=SEARCH**

  Search for a code by name or description. Search text may contain regular expressions.

## USAGE

Lists all available HTTP status codes and their description:

hc

Explain 405 status code:

hc 405

Search code(s) by description (case-insensitive):

hc -s too

Filter codes with a regex

hc 30\[12\]

Use an 'x' for any digit

hc 1xx

## AUTHOR

httpcode was written by Ruslan Spivak \<ruslan.spivak@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Khalid El Fathi \<khalid@elfathi.fr\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).