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HELLO(1) User Commands HELLO(1)

NAME

hello - friendly greeting program

SYNOPSIS

hello [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

Print a friendly, customizable greeting.

use traditional greeting
use TEXT as the greeting message
display this help and exit
output version information and exit

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

See man/hello.x for how to add additional information to a manual page.

AUTHOR

Written by Karl Berry, Sami Kerola, Jim Meyering, and Reuben Thomas.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to: bug-hello@gnu.org
GNU Hello home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report GNU Hello translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for hello is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and hello programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info hello

should give you access to the complete manual.

May 2025 GNU Hello 2.12.2