hugo/docs/content/overview/usage.md

title	date	aliases
Using Hugo	2013-07-01	/doc/usage/

Make sure either hugo is in your path or provide a path to it.

$ hugo help
A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator
built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.

Complete documentation is available at http://hugo.spf13.com

Usage:
  hugo [flags]
  hugo [command]

Available Commands:
  server          :: Hugo runs it's own a webserver to render the files
  version         :: Print the version number of Hugo
  check           :: Check content in the source directory
  benchmark       :: Benchmark hugo by building a site a number of times
  help [command]  :: Help about any command

 Available Flags:
  -b, --base-url="": hostname (and path) to the root eg. http://spf13.com/
  -D, --build-drafts=false: include content marked as draft
      --config="": config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
  -d, --destination="": filesystem path to write files to
  -s, --source="": filesystem path to read files relative from
      --uglyurls=false: if true, use /filename.html instead of /filename/
  -v, --verbose=false: verbose output
  -w, --watch=false: watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed

Use "hugo help [command]" for more information about that command.

Common Usage Example:

The most common use is probably to run hugo with your current directory being the input directory.

$ hugo
> X pages created
> Y indexes created
  in 8 ms

If you are working on things and want to see the changes immediately, tell Hugo to watch for changes. It will recreate the site faster than you can tab over to your browser to view the changes.

$ hugo -s ~/mysite --watch
   28 pages created
   0 tags index created
   in 38 ms
   Watching for changes in /Users/spf13/Code/hugo/docs/content
   Press ctrl+c to stop

Hugo can even run a server and create your site at the same time!

$ hugo server -ws ~/mysite
   Watching for changes in /Users/spf13/Code/hugo/docs/content
   Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313
   Press ctrl+c to stop
   28 pages created
   0 tags created
   in 28 ms