hello(1)

NAME

hello - friendly greeting program

SYNOPSIS

hello [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

Print a friendly, customizable greeting.

-t, --traditional

use traditional greeting

-g, --greeting=TEXT

use TEXT as the greeting message

--help

display this help and exit

--version

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 © 2026 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.