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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
======

Foobar Goodprogrammer <foo@example.org>

SEE ALSO
========

**hi(1)**, **hello(3)**, **hello.conf(4)**