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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

This tool produces a POD from a "--help" string. Primarily it's intended to work with Python tools using argparse.

This tool generates a POD, which can then be made into a manpage with "pod2man".

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

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

<inputprogram>
Tool that we're making a manpage for

AUTHOR

Dima Kogan, "<dima@secretsauce.net>"

2023-01-20 perl v5.36.0