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make-pod-from-help(1)

make-pod-from-help1

Creates pod documentation from a commandline tool

Overview

This tool produces a POD from a "--help" string. Primarily it's intended to work with Python tools using argparse.

This tool generates a POD, which can then be made into a manpage with "pod2man".

Some details here <http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2018/10/07_generating-manpages-from-python-and-argparse.html>.

Required arguments

<inputprogram>

Tool that we're making a manpage for

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Author

Dima Kogan, "<[email protected]>"

From mrbuild 1.13-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.