hugo/docs/content/en/commands/hugo_gen_doc.md

---
date: 2019-01-30
title: "hugo gen doc"
slug: hugo_gen_doc
url: /commands/hugo_gen_doc/
---
## hugo gen doc

Generate Markdown documentation for the Hugo CLI.

### Synopsis

Generate Markdown documentation for the Hugo CLI.

This command is, mostly, used to create up-to-date documentation
of Hugo's command-line interface for http://gohugo.io/.

It creates one Markdown file per command with front matter suitable
for rendering in Hugo.

```
hugo gen doc [flags]
```

### Options

```
      --dir string   the directory to write the doc. (default "/tmp/hugodoc/")
  -h, --help         help for doc
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --config string      config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
      --configDir string   config dir (default "config")
      --debug              debug output
      --log                enable Logging
      --logFile string     log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
      --quiet              build in quiet mode
  -v, --verbose            verbose output
      --verboseLog         verbose logging
```

### SEE ALSO

* [hugo gen](/commands/hugo_gen/)	 - A collection of several useful generators.

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