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% HELLO(1) Version 1.0 | Frivolous "Hello World" Documentation

NAME

hello — prints Hello, World!

SYNOPSIS

| hello [-o|--out file] [dedication] | hello [-h|--help|-v|--version]

DESCRIPTION

Prints "Hello, dedication!" to the terminal. If no dedication is given, uses the default dedication. The default dedication is chosen by the following sequence:

1. Using the environment variable DEFAULT_HELLO_DEDICATION
2. Using the per-user configuration file, ~/.hellorc
3. Using the system-wide configuration file, /etc/hello.conf
4. Finally, using "world".

Options

-h, --help

: Prints brief usage information.

-o, --output

: Outputs the greeting to the given filename.

The file must be an **open(2)**able and **write(2)**able file.

-v, --version

: Prints the current version number.

FILES

~/.hellorc

: Per-user default dedication file.

/etc/hello.conf

: Global default dedication file.

ENVIRONMENT

DEFAULT_HELLO_DEDICATION

: The default dedication if none is given. Has the highest precedence if a dedication is not supplied on the command line.

BUGS

See GitHub Issues: https://github.com/[owner]/[repo]/issues

AUTHOR

Bob Green bob@chippers.org.uk

SEE ALSO

hi(1), hello(3), hello.conf(5)