DOCHELP(1)

πŸ’– DOCHELP(1) β€” the dochelp manual, but make it cute πŸ’–

okay bestie, welcome to dochelp, a lil utility that lets you browse all the system documentation πŸ‘‘βœ¨ it's giving "library but make it a group chat", and honestly? obsessed.


🌸 NAME 🌸

dochelp β€” a utility to browse system documentation πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dochelp [COMMAND] …

literally that's it, you give it a command and some stuff and it does the thing πŸ’…


πŸŽ€ COMMANDS πŸŽ€

  • cat [--base-doc=VAL] [OPTION]… [docid] β€” dump the content of a document πŸ“„ like, all of it, right there
  • info [--base-doc=VAL] [OPTION]… [docid] β€” print available information for a document 🧚 the lil summary vibe
  • list [--base-doc=VAL] [OPTION]… β€” list known registered documents πŸ‘‘ the whole roster, periodt
  • search [--base-doc=VAL] [OPTION]… [regex] β€” look for matching documents πŸ” you hand it a regex and it goes hunting
  • update [--base-doc=VAL] [--online] [OPTION]… [target] β€” update summary page 🌈 keeping the summary page fresh, no cap

πŸ’… OPTIONS πŸ’…

these options are common to all commands, so they're the shared besties fr fr 🫢

  • --help[=FMT] (default=auto) β€” show this help in format FMT. the value FMT must be one of auto, pager, groff or plain. with auto, the format is pager or plain whenever the TERM env var is dumb or undefined 😭 (iykyk)
  • --version β€” show version information ⭐

πŸ“ MORE HELP πŸ“

use dochelp COMMAND --help for help on a single command πŸ’œ like, if you want the tea on just one command instead of the whole menu


πŸ› BUGS πŸ›

check bug reports at http://bugs.debian.org/src:dochelp πŸ’€ (not me sending you straight to the bug tracker)


ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and browse those docs πŸ’–

Dochelp 0.1.8+b8 🌸 that's the version, and this lil cutie is page DOCHELP(1) β€” mwah, bye πŸŽ€βœ¨

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