gcloud beta topic offline-help - setting up gcloud command offline help

• Browsehttps://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/for the most recent Google Cloud CLI release online documents.

• Add the--help flag to any command. This will render a man styledocument in a terminal pager. The document is always up to date with the commandbecause it is generated by collating help text from the command itself.

• Use thegcloud betainteractive shell which has as-you-type help. Like--help, the interactive help documents are always up to date withthegcloud installation.

• Generate HTML documents in a local directory and point your browser to thegeneratedindex.html for offline browsing. Hover over a navigationitem to focus the menu, hover to the left to expand it again. More details onthis below.

• Generate and installman(1) style documents on a local host. Moredetails on this below.

All of these methods have the same content, all generated from a Google CloudCLIgcloud installation. Thelast two are user maintained and can become out of date. Either use them for onetime offline access, or make them part of your Google Cloud CLIinstallation/update routine.

# Select an empty directory where the HTML and supporting *.css* and# *.js* files will be generated.HTML_DIR=<some-local-directory>

# Generate the HTML in $HTML_DIR.# Should take ~1 min, 10 min or more on slower systems.gcloudmetagenerate-help-docs--html-dir=$HTML_DIR

Then enter this URL in the browser address/search bar, where $HTML_DIR must bethe actual path name of the directory:

file://$HTML_DIR/index.html

# Select an empty directory where the man page files will be generated.MANPAGE_DIR=<some-local-directory>

# Generate the man pages in $MANPAGE_DIR.# Should take ~1 min, 10 min or more on slower systems.gcloudmetagenerate-help-docs--manpage-dir=$MANPAGE_DIR

# Append $MANPAGE_DIR to the MANPATH environment variable:exportMANPATH=$MANPATH:$MANPAGE_dir

Then run the man command on gcloud manpages:

mangcloudinfo