dotnet-help(1)

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💖 dotnet-help(1) 💖

the .NET Documentation girlies present… dotnet help ✨

okay bestie, quick vibe check before we dive in: This article applies to: ✔️ .NET 6 SDK and later versions 🫶 so if you're on something older, this is not the page for you, sorry babe 😭

✨ NAME ✨

dotnet-help — it shows you more detailed documentation online for the command you're curious about 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dotnet help <COMMAND_NAME> [-h|--help]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, the dotnet help command opens up the reference page for more detailed information about whatever command you name. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it beautifully 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

COMMAND_NAME — the name of the .NET CLI command, periodt. for a list of the valid CLI commands, see CLI commands 🧚

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

-?, -h, --help — prints out a description of how to use the command 💜

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

opens the documentation page for the dotnet new command, iconic behaviour honestly:

dotnet help new

no cap, that's literally the whole page. short, sweet, and it ate 💅✨

mwah 💖 this page is from the .NET Documentation, dated 2025-10-30, and its manpage name is dotnet-help(1) — stan a classic 🎀🦋

📦 where this page comes from

alpine 3.24: dotnet-doc 10.0.303-r2 · MIT
centos-stream 10: dotnet-host 11.0.0~rc.2.26504.105-0.10.el10 · 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND APSL-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND CC-PDDC AND CNRI-Python AND EPL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND ICU AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-ISO-8879 AND MIT AND MIT-Wu AND MS-PL AND MS-RL AND NCSA AND OFL-1.1 AND OpenSSL AND Unicode-DFS-2015 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND W3C-19980720 AND X11 AND Zlib
centos-stream 9: dotnet-host 11.0.0~rc.2.26504.105-0.11.el9 · 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND APSL-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND CC-PDDC AND CNRI-Python AND EPL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND ICU AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-ISO-8879 AND MIT AND MIT-Wu AND MS-PL AND MS-RL AND NCSA AND OFL-1.1 AND OpenSSL AND Unicode-DFS-2015 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND W3C-19980720 AND X11 AND Zlib
fedora 43: dotnet-host 10.0.12-1.fc43
fedora 43: dotnet-host 11.0.0~rc.1.26425.128-0.10.fc43 · 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND APSL-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND CC-PDDC AND CNRI-Python AND EPL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND ICU AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-ISO-8879 AND MIT AND MIT-Wu AND MS-PL AND MS-RL AND NCSA AND OFL-1.1 AND OpenSSL AND Unicode-DFS-2015 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND W3C-19980720 AND X11 AND Zlib
fedora 44: dotnet-host 10.0.12-1.fc44
fedora 44: dotnet-host 10.0.4-1.fc44 · 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND APSL-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND CC-PDDC AND CNRI-Python AND EPL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND ICU AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-ISO-8879 AND MIT AND MIT-Wu AND MS-PL AND MS-RL AND NCSA AND OFL-1.1 AND OpenSSL AND Unicode-DFS-2015 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND W3C-19980720 AND X11 AND Zlib
fedora 44: dotnet-host 11.0.0~rc.1.26425.128-0.12.fc44 · 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception) AND APSL-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND bzip2-1.0.6 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND CC-PDDC AND CNRI-Python AND EPL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND ICU AND ISC AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-ISO-8879 AND MIT AND MIT-Wu AND MS-PL AND MS-RL AND NCSA AND OFL-1.1 AND OpenSSL AND Unicode-DFS-2015 AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND W3C-19980720 AND X11 AND Zlib
nixpkgs unstable: dotnet-vmr 11.0.0-rc.3
ubuntu noble: dotnet-host-10.0 10.0.12-0ubuntu1~24.04.1
ubuntu questing: dotnet-host-10.0 10.0.9-0ubuntu1~25.10.1
ubuntu resolute: dotnet-host-10.0 10.0.12-0ubuntu1~26.04.1
ubuntu resolute: dotnet-host-10.0 10.0.5-0ubuntu1 · MIT
ubuntu stonking: dotnet-host-10.0 10.0.12-0ubuntu2 · MIT
ubuntu stonking: dotnet-host-11.0 11.0.0~rc1-0ubuntu1 · MIT
ubuntu stonking: dotnet-host-11.0 11.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu1~26.10.1 · MIT
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