HUGO-GEN(1)

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version 0.169.0 · 13 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

hugo-gen — generate documentation and syntax highlighting styles 💅 (this one's straight out of the Hugo Manual, bestie, so you know it's official)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hugo gen [command] [flags]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so picture this: you wanna generate documentation for your project, right? You use Hugo's own documentation engine to do it — and it also does syntax highlighting for a whole bunch of programming languages. Iconic behavior, honestly. It's giving "one command, all the docs." 🔥

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for gen. Your literal bestie when you forget what's going on (no judgment, it happens 💖)

👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

These are the ones you get for free from the parent command — the hand-me-downs, but make them couture. 🌈

  • --clock="" — sets the clock Hugo uses, like --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00. Time travel, but legal ⭐
  • --config="" — config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)
  • --configDir="config" — config dir. The little folder where your config lives 🏠
  • -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to. Where the output goes to live its best life ✨
  • -e, --environment="" — build environment. Tell it what mood we're in today 🌀
  • --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern. Like a "not you, babe" list for vendor dirs 🙈
  • --logLevel="" — log level (debug|info|warn|error). Pick your drama tier 💀
  • --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create the .hugo_build.lock file. Live dangerously, bestie 🔥
  • --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode. Shhh. No yapping. 🤫
  • -M, --renderToMemory[=false] — render to memory (mostly useful when running the server). Big brain energy, no disk involved 🧠
  • -s, --source="" — filesystem path to read files relative from
  • --themesDir="" — filesystem path to themes directory. Go get your aesthetic, queen 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The whole squad, fr fr — go read the friends too. 🫶

Lowkey reminder: this is hugo-gen specifically, not the whole of hugo. Don't come for me if you run the wrong one 💅

And that's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this was Hugo 0.169.0 from Oct 2026, brought to you with love, and you've officially reached the end of the page. Slay. 💖✨🎀

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