HUGO(1)

💖 NAME 💖

hey bestie!! welcome to the HUGO(1) page from the Hugo Manual ✨ you're gonna slay this, i promise 🫶

hugo — Build your project

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hugo [flags]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so hugo is the main command, used to build your Hugo project. no cap, that's the whole vibe of this page 💅

Hugo is a Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 and friends in Go. iconic behavior fr fr 🐹✨

Complete documentation is available at https://gohugo.io/ — go read it, bestie, the docs are giving main character energy 📚👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay bestie, here's the full flag menu — every single one, no skips, periodt 💅

• -b, --baseURL="" — hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. https://spf13.com/.
• -D, --buildDrafts[=false] — include content marked as draft.
• -E, --buildExpired[=false] — include expired content.
• -F, --buildFuture[=false] — include content with publishdate in the future.
• --cacheDir="" — filesystem path to cache directory.
• --cleanDestinationDir[=false] — remove stale files from destination.
• --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.
• -c, --contentDir="" — filesystem path to content directory.
• -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to.
• --disableKinds=[] — disable different kind of pages (home, RSS etc.).
• --enableGitInfo[=false] — add Git revision, date, author, and CODEOWNERS info to the pages.
• -e, --environment="" — build environment.
• --forceSyncStatic[=false] — copy all files when static is changed.
• --gc[=false] — enable to run some cleanup tasks (remove unused cache files) after the build.
• -h, --help[=false] — help for hugo.
• --ignoreCache[=false] — ignore the configured file caches.
• --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern.
• -l, --layoutDir="" — filesystem path to layout directory.
• --logLevel="" — log level (debug|info|warn|error).
• --minify[=false] — minify any supported output format (HTML, XML etc.).
• --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create .hugo_build.lock file.
• --noChmod[=false] — don't sync permission mode of files.
• --noTimes[=false] — don't sync modification time of files.
• --panicOnWarning[=false] — panic on first WARNING log.
• --poll="" — set this to a poll interval, e.g --poll 700ms, to use a poll based approach to watch for file system changes.
• --printI18nWarnings[=false] — print missing translations.
• --printMemoryUsage[=false] — print memory usage to screen at intervals.
• --printPathWarnings[=false] — print warnings on duplicate target paths etc.
• --printUnusedTemplates[=false] — print warnings on unused templates.
• --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode.
• --renderSegments=[] — named segments to render (configured in the segments config).
• -M, --renderToMemory[=false] — render to memory (mostly useful when running the server).
• -s, --source="" — filesystem path to read files relative from.
• --templateMetrics[=false] — display metrics about template executions.
• --templateMetricsHints[=false] — calculate some improvement hints when combined with --templateMetrics.
• -t, --theme=[] — themes to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/).
• --themesDir="" — filesystem path to themes directory.
• --trace="" — write trace to file (not useful in general).
• -w, --watch[=false] — watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go give these sibling pages some love too, bestie 🫶

• hugo-build(1)
• hugo-completion(1)
• hugo-config(1)
• hugo-convert(1)
• hugo-deploy(1)
• hugo-env(1)
• hugo-gen(1)
• hugo-import(1)
• hugo-list(1)
• hugo-mod(1)
• hugo-new(1)
• hugo-server(1)
• hugo-version(1)

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page, bestie. it comes from Hugo 0.169.0, dated Oct 2026, and it's HUGO(1) in the Hugo Manual — go build something iconic and text me about it ✨💖