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+# Generating Markdown Docs For Your Own cobra.Command
+
+Generating man pages from a cobra command is incredibly easy. An example is as follows:
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "github.com/spf13/cobra"
+ "github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ cmd := &cobra.Command{
+ Use: "test",
+ Short: "my test program",
+ }
+ doc.GenMarkdownTree(cmd, "/tmp")
+}
+```
+
+That will get you a Markdown document `/tmp/test.md`
+
+## Generate markdown docs for the entire command tree
+
+This program can actually generate docs for the kubectl command in the kubernetes project
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "io/ioutil"
+ "os"
+
+ kubectlcmd "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd"
+ cmdutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util"
+
+ "github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ cmd := kubectlcmd.NewKubectlCommand(cmdutil.NewFactory(nil), os.Stdin, ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard)
+ doc.GenMarkdownTree(cmd, "./")
+}
+```
+
+This will generate a whole series of files, one for each command in the tree, in the directory specified (in this case "./")
+
+## Generate markdown docs for a single command
+
+You may wish to have more control over the output, or only generate for a single command, instead of the entire command tree. If this is the case you may prefer to `GenMarkdown` instead of `GenMarkdownTree`
+
+```go
+ out := new(bytes.Buffer)
+ doc.GenMarkdown(cmd, out)
+```
+
+This will write the markdown doc for ONLY "cmd" into the out, buffer.
+
+## Customize the output
+
+Both `GenMarkdown` and `GenMarkdownTree` have alternate versions with callbacks to get some control of the output:
+
+```go
+func GenMarkdownTreeCustom(cmd *Command, dir string, filePrepender, linkHandler func(string) string) error {
+ //...
+}
+```
+
+```go
+func GenMarkdownCustom(cmd *Command, out *bytes.Buffer, linkHandler func(string) string) error {
+ //...
+}
+```
+
+The `filePrepender` will prepend the return value given the full filepath to the rendered Markdown file. A common use case is to add front matter to use the generated documentation with [Hugo](http://gohugo.io/):
+
+```go
+const fmTemplate = `---
+date: %s
+title: "%s"
+slug: %s
+url: %s
+---
+`
+
+filePrepender := func(filename string) string {
+ now := time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)
+ name := filepath.Base(filename)
+ base := strings.TrimSuffix(name, path.Ext(name))
+ url := "/commands/" + strings.ToLower(base) + "/"
+ return fmt.Sprintf(fmTemplate, now, strings.Replace(base, "_", " ", -1), base, url)
+}
+```
+
+The `linkHandler` can be used to customize the rendered internal links to the commands, given a filename:
+
+```go
+linkHandler := func(name string) string {
+ base := strings.TrimSuffix(name, path.Ext(name))
+ return "/commands/" + strings.ToLower(base) + "/"
+}
+```