diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md
index af5c000b0..60fe69e7e 100644
--- a/contrib/devtools/README.md
+++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ would be changed to:
 
 ```// Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers```
 
+gen-manpages.sh
+===============
+
+A small script to automatically create manpages in ../../doc/man by running the release binaries with the -help option.
+This requires help2man which can be found at: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
+
 git-subtree-check.sh
 ====================