hledger/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Help.md

help
Show the hledger user manual in one of several formats, optionally positioned at a given TOPIC (if possible).

TOPIC is any heading in the manual, or a heading prefix, case insensitive. Eg: commands, print, forecast, "auto postings", journal, amount.

_FLAGS

This command shows the user manual built in to this hledger version. It can be useful if the correct version of the hledger manual, or the usual viewing tools, are not installed on your system.

By default it uses the best viewer it can find in $PATH, in this order: info, man, $PAGER (unless a topic is specified), less, or stdout. When run non-interactively, it always uses stdout. Or you can select a particular viewer with the -i (info), -m (man), or -p (pager) flags.

Examples

$ hledger help --help    # show how the help command works
$ hledger help           # show the hledger manual with info, man or $PAGER
$ hledger help journal   # show the journal topic in the hledger manual