helpm2pod converts a specially formatted simple help message to POD (Perl’s Plain Old Documentation) syntax so that a standard manual page can be generated. It should be seen as a compact readable form of POD that can be employed as is as a usage message. See the manual pages helpm2pod(1) and helpmessage(5).

There are some additional helper scripts: helpm2text(1), helpm2man(1), gitparseopt2helpm(1) and helpm4sh(1).

Dependencies

  • POSIX sh

  • POSIX awk

  • sed with Extended Regular Expressions

  • pod2man