help2man

Install command: 
brew install help2man

Automatically generate simple man pages

https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/help2man.json

Formula code: help2man.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.49.3

Revision: 5

Depends on:

gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Uses from macOS: perl

Binaries: help2man

GitHub Packages downloads:

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