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---
date: 2015-05-21T20:03:19+02:00
title: "hugo"
slug: hugo
url: /commands/hugo/
---
## hugo
hugo builds your site
### Synopsis
hugo is the main command, used to build your Hugo site.
Hugo is a Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.
Complete documentation is available at http://gohugo.io
```
hugo
```
### Options
```
-b, --baseUrl="": hostname (and path) to the root eg. http://spf13.com/
-D, --buildDrafts=false: include content marked as draft
-F, --buildFuture=false: include content with publishdate in the future
--cacheDir="": filesystem path to cache directory. Defaults: $TMPDIR/hugo_cache/
--config="": config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
-d, --destination="": filesystem path to write files to
--disableRSS=false: Do not build RSS files
--disableSitemap=false: Do not build Sitemap file
--editor="": edit new content with this editor, if provided
-h, --help=false: help for hugo
--ignoreCache=false: Ignores the cache directory for reading but still writes to it
--log=false: Enable Logging
--logFile="": Log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
--noTimes=false: Don't sync modification time of files
--pluralizeListTitles=true: Pluralize titles in lists using inflect
-s, --source="": filesystem path to read files relative from
--stepAnalysis=false: display memory and timing of different steps of the program
-t, --theme="": theme to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
--uglyUrls=false: if true, use /filename.html instead of /filename/
-v, --verbose=false: verbose output
--verboseLog=false: verbose logging
-w, --watch=false: watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed
```
### SEE ALSO
* [hugo benchmark](/commands/hugo_benchmark/) - Benchmark hugo by building a site a number of times
* [hugo check](/commands/hugo_check/) - Check content in the source directory
* [hugo config](/commands/hugo_config/) - Print the site configuration
* [hugo convert](/commands/hugo_convert/) - Convert will modify your content to different formats
* [hugo genautocomplete](/commands/hugo_genautocomplete/) - Generate shell autocompletion script for Hugo
* [hugo gendoc](/commands/hugo_gendoc/) - Generate Markdown documentation for the Hugo CLI.
* [hugo help](/commands/hugo_help/) - Help about any command
* [hugo list](/commands/hugo_list/) - Listing out various types of content
* [hugo new](/commands/hugo_new/) - Create new content for your site
* [hugo server](/commands/hugo_server/) - Hugo runs its own webserver to render the files
* [hugo undraft](/commands/hugo_undraft/) - Undraft changes the content's draft status from 'True' to 'False'
* [hugo version](/commands/hugo_version/) - Print the version number of Hugo
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