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hugo

hugo

hugo builds your site

Synopsis

hugo is the main command, used to build your Hugo site.

Hugo is a Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.

Complete documentation is available at https://gohugo.io/.

hugo [flags]

Options

  -b, --baseURL string             hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. https://spf13.com/
  -D, --buildDrafts                include content marked as draft
  -E, --buildExpired               include expired content
  -F, --buildFuture                include content with publishdate in the future
      --cacheDir string            filesystem path to cache directory
      --cleanDestinationDir        remove files from destination not found in static directories
      --clock string               set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00
      --config string              config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)
      --configDir string           config dir (default "config")
  -c, --contentDir string          filesystem path to content directory
      --debug                      debug output
  -d, --destination string         filesystem path to write files to
      --disableKinds strings       disable different kind of pages (home, RSS etc.)
      --enableGitInfo              add Git revision, date, author, and CODEOWNERS info to the pages
  -e, --environment string         build environment
      --forceSyncStatic            copy all files when static is changed.
      --gc                         enable to run some cleanup tasks (remove unused cache files) after the build
  -h, --help                       help for hugo
      --ignoreCache                ignores the cache directory
      --ignoreVendorPaths string   ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern
  -l, --layoutDir string           filesystem path to layout directory
      --logLevel string            log level (debug|info|warn|error)
      --minify                     minify any supported output format (HTML, XML etc.)
      --noBuildLock                don't create .hugo_build.lock file
      --noChmod                    don't sync permission mode of files
      --noTimes                    don't sync modification time of files
      --panicOnWarning             panic on first WARNING log
      --poll string                set this to a poll interval, e.g --poll 700ms, to use a poll based approach to watch for file system changes
      --printI18nWarnings          print missing translations
      --printMemoryUsage           print memory usage to screen at intervals
      --printPathWarnings          print warnings on duplicate target paths etc.
      --printUnusedTemplates       print warnings on unused templates.
      --quiet                      build in quiet mode
      --renderToMemory             render to memory (only useful for benchmark testing)
  -s, --source string              filesystem path to read files relative from
      --templateMetrics            display metrics about template executions
      --templateMetricsHints       calculate some improvement hints when combined with --templateMetrics
  -t, --theme strings              themes to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
      --themesDir string           filesystem path to themes directory
      --trace file                 write trace to file (not useful in general)
  -v, --verbose                    verbose output
  -w, --watch                      watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed

SEE ALSO

  • hugo completion - Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  • hugo config - Print the site configuration
  • hugo convert - Convert your content to different formats
  • hugo deploy - Deploy your site to a Cloud provider.
  • hugo env - Print Hugo version and environment info
  • hugo gen - A collection of several useful generators.
  • hugo import - Import your site from others.
  • hugo list - Listing out various types of content
  • hugo mod - Various Hugo Modules helpers.
  • hugo new - Create new content for your site
  • hugo server - A high performance webserver
  • hugo version - Print Hugo version and environment info

See also

  • hugo completion
  • hugo completion bash
  • hugo completion fish
  • hugo completion powershell
  • hugo completion zsh
Last updated: July 30, 2023: docs: Regenerate CLI docs (fb0ff262)
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