make-pod-from-help(1)

make-pod-from-help1

Creates pod documentation from a commandline tool

Usage

 $ make-pod-from-help frobnicate > frobnicate.pod

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

Releases

2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12
  2. 13

Author

Dima Kogan, "<[email protected]>"

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