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NAME

hugo - hugo builds your site

SYNOPSIS

hugo [flags]

DESCRIPTION

hugo is the main command, used to build your Hugo site.

Hugo is a Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.

Complete documentation is available at https://gohugo.io/.

OPTIONS

-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. Defaults: $TMPDIR/hugo_cache/

--cleanDestinationDir[=false] remove files from destination not found in static directories

--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

--debug[=false] debug output

-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] ignores the cache directory

--ignoreVendorPaths="" ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern

-l, --layoutDir="" filesystem path to layout directory

--log[=false] enable Logging

--logFile="" log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)

--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

--renderToMemory[=false] render to memory (only useful for benchmark testing)

-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)

-v, --verbose[=false] verbose output

--verboseLog[=false] verbose logging

-w, --watch[=false] watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed

SEE ALSO

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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