# dry-cli customizing the help text w/headers and footers

**URL:** https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/dry-cli-customizing-the-help-text-w-headers-and-footers/1747
**Category:** Ideas
**Created:** [November 3, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/dry-cli-customizing-the-help-text-w-headers-and-footers/1747 "2023-11-03T22:22:13Z")
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### Author: ![MadBomber](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.dry-rb.org/madbomber/32/929_2.png) [@MadBomber](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/u/MadBomber)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/dry-cli-customizing-the-help-text-w-headers-and-footers/1747/1 "2023-11-03T22:22:13Z")

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> <https://github.com/MadBomber/experiments/blob/master/cli_options/dry-cli/foo/monkey_patch_dry_cli.rb>

If this is of interest to anyone else I will be happy to generate a PR.

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### Author: ![apainintheneck](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.dry-rb.org/apainintheneck/32/1048_2.png) [@apainintheneck](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/u/apainintheneck)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.dry-rb.org/t/dry-cli-customizing-the-help-text-w-headers-and-footers/1747/2 "2025-08-31T06:26:42Z")

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This would be useful for me too. I was looking for the ability to add a header to the top-level help message. Descriptions seem to already be supported for subcommands so this really would just expand on that.