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Generate man pages for click based CLI applications

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# click-man

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Create man pages for [click](https://github.com/pallets/click) application as easy as this:

`bash python3 setup.py --command-packages=click_man.commands man_pages `

![Demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timofurrer/click-man/master/docs/asciicast.gif)

## What it does

click-man will generate one man page per command from your click CLI application specified in console_scripts in your setup.py.

## Installation

`bash pip3 install click-man `

click-man is also available for Python 2:

`bash pip install click-man `

## Usage Recipes

The following sections describe different usage example for click-man.

### Use with setuptools

click-man provides a sane setuptools command extension which can be used like the following:

`bash python setup.py --command-packages=click_man.commands man_pages `

or specify the man pages target directory:

`bash python setup.py --command-packages=click_man.commands man_pages --target path/to/man/pages `

### Debian packages

Coming soon …

### Standalone

Coming soon …

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