HUGO-GEN-MAN(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to HUGO-GEN-MAN(1) from the Hugo Manual — this is the command that generates man pages for the Hugo CLI, and it is literally serving utility ✨. The command itself is hugo-gen-man.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hugo gen man [flags] [args]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So this command automatically generates up-to-date man pages of Hugo's command-line interface. Iconic behavior, no cap. By default, it creates the man page files in the "man" directory under the current directory. It's giving organized and lowkey effortless 💅.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --dir="man/" — the directory to write the man pages. The default is "man/", and she is very much keeping things tidy.
• -h, --help[=false] — help for man. The [=false] is just chilling there by default.

🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

These are passed down from the parent command, and they are highkey essential:

• --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. That's the whole vibe.
• -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.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• hugo-gen(1) — the parent-command bestie to check out next. iykyk 🫶

xoxo, your man-page bestie 💖 — this page is from Hugo 0.169.0, dated Oct 2026, and it's literally HUGO-GEN-MAN(1) 🌸