The man pages in this directory can be generated using the `rst2man` command line tool provided by the Python `docutils` project: rst2man whipper.rst whipper.1 Alternatively, you can also build all the man pages in this directory at the same time by running (requires `make`): make or this way (without make): for manpage in *.rst; do rst2man --exit-status=2 --report=1 --debug ${manpage} "${manpage%%.*}".1 ; done The directory can be cleaned of generated man pages by running: make clean or this way (without make): rm *.1