# # This function is used internally by the fish command completion code # function __fish_describe_command -d "Command used to find descriptions for commands" # We're going to try to build a regex out of $argv inside awk. # Make sure $argv has no special characters. # TODO: stop interpolating argv into regex, and remove this hack. string match --quiet --regex '^[a-zA-Z0-9_ ]+$' -- "$argv" or return type -q apropos; or return apropos $argv 2>/dev/null | awk -v FS=" +- +" '{ split($1, names, ", "); for (name in names) if (names[name] ~ /^'"$argv"'.* *\([18]\)/ ) { sub( "( |\t)*\\\([18]\\\)", "", names[name] ); sub( " \\\[.*\\\]", "", names[name] ); print names[name] "\t" $2; } }' end