MRBUILD(1)

💖 MRBUILD — make-pod-from-help 💖

okay bestie, we're doing manpages today and honestly? it's giving iconic. this is the MRBUILD(1) page, and it's all about a lil tool called make-pod-from-help. yes the manual name and the tool name are a whole thing, don't worry about it, we move. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

make-pod-from-help — creates POD documentation from a commandline tool 🎀

like. that's the whole job. it takes a commandline tool and manifests a POD out of it. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

$ make-pod-from-help frobnicate > frobnicate.pod

that's it. that's the vibe. pipe the output into a file, done, go touch grass. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: this tool produces a POD from a "--help" string. that's its whole main character moment. ✨

and who is this primarily for? bestie it's for Python tools using argparse. that's the intended audience, no cap. if your tool spits out a nice --help and it's built on argparse, this is your moment. 🐍

what it makes is a POD, and then you can turn that POD into an actual manpage with pod2man. so like, the pipeline is: help string ➡️ POD ➡️ manpage. a whole glow-up journey. 🌈

some details here, if you want the lore:

<http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2018/10/07_generating-manpages-from-python-and-argparse.html>

(that's a link, bestie, it's literally in the original, we're keeping it, periodt.)

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👑 REQUIRED ARGUMENTS 👑

• <inputprogram> — the tool that we're making a manpage for. yeah. you gotta tell it which program, it's not a mind reader. 🙈

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dima Kogan, <dima@secretsauce.net> — legend behavior, honestly. 👑

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lowkey reminder: this page came to you via perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-23. that's the footer tea, and we're not skipping it, because we keep every single detail around here. 💀

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate, go forth and generate manpages 🍓🧚💖