# Downloadable documentation?

**URL:** <https://forum.openwrt.org/t/downloadable-documentation/29105>\
**Category:** Talk about Documentation\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/downloadable-documentation/29105 "2019-01-14T15:55:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff](https://forum.openwrt.org/letter_avatar/jeff/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@jeff](https://forum.openwrt.org/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/downloadable-documentation/29105/2 "2019-01-14T16:49:59Z")

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For better or for worse, the [guidance is that the man pages are not generated in packages](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/packaging-guidelines/65). This makes sense to me for a resource-constrained device, but can be challenging for executables that aren't self-documenting (most supplied by `busybox` at least output a terse summary).

```
jeff@office:~$ ls --help
BusyBox v1.29.2 () multi-call binary.

Usage: ls [-1AaCxdLHRFplinshrSXvctu] [-w WIDTH] [FILE]...

List directory contents

	-1	One column output
	-a	Include entries which start with .
	-A	Like -a, but exclude . and ..
	-x	List by lines
	-d	List directory entries instead of contents
	-L	Follow symlinks
	-H	Follow symlinks on command line
	-R	Recurse
	-p	Append / to dir entries
	-F	Append indicator (one of */=@|) to entries
	-l	Long listing format
	-i	List inode numbers
	-n	List numeric UIDs and GIDs instead of names
	-s	List allocated blocks
	-lc	List ctime
	-lu	List atime
	--full-time	List full date and time
	-h	Human readable sizes (1K 243M 2G)
	--group-directories-first
	-S	Sort by size
	-X	Sort by extension
	-v	Sort by version
	-t	Sort by mtime
	-tc	Sort by ctime
	-tu	Sort by atime
	-r	Reverse sort order
	-w N	Format N columns wide
	--color[={always,never,auto}]	Control coloring

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When you say "OpenWrt docs", do you mean just the equivalent of man pages, or the wiki?

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