hugo-gen(1)

hugo-gen1

Generate documentation and syntax highlighting styles

Usage

hugo gen [command] [flags]

Overview

Generate documentation for your project using Hugo's documentation engine, including syntax highlighting for various programming languages.

Options

-h, --help[=false]
help for gen

Options inherited from parent commands

--clock=""
set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00

--config=""
config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)

--configDir="config"
config dir

-d, --destination=""
filesystem path to write files to

-e, --environment=""
build environment

--ignoreVendorPaths=""
ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern

--logLevel=""
log level (debug|info|warn|error)

--noBuildLock[=false]
don't create .hugo_build.lock file

--quiet[=false]
build in quiet mode

-M, --renderToMemory[=false]
render to memory (mostly useful when running the server)

-s, --source=""
filesystem path to read files relative from

--themesDir=""
filesystem path to themes directory

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

From hugo 0.169.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.