fish-shell/share/functions/__fish_apropos.fish
Fabian Homborg fcbf303e05 Only do the macOS apropos thing if makewhatis is available
This won't work without it, and happens to be broken on jailbroken
iOS.

Fixes #8205.
2021-08-04 18:55:01 +02:00

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if not type -q apropos
function __fish_apropos
end
exit
end
# Check for macOS Catalina or above. This is Darwin 19.x or above. See unames reported here:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
set -l sysver (uname -sr | string match -r "(Darwin) (\d\d)"\.)
if test $status -eq 0 -a (count $sysver) -eq 3
and test $sysver[2] = Darwin -a $sysver[3] -ge 19
and test -x /usr/libexec/makewhatis
set -l dir
if test -n "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"
set dir $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fish
else
set dir (getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)"fish"
end
function __fish_apropos -V dir
# macOS 10.15 "Catalina" has a read only filesystem where the whatis database should be.
# The whatis database is non-existent, so apropos tries (and fails) to create it every time,
# which can take seconds.
#
# Instead, we build a whatis database in the user cache directory
# and override the MANPATH using that directory before we run `apropos`
#
# the cache is rebuilt once a week.
set -l whatis $dir/whatis
set -l max_age 600000 # like a week
set -l age $max_age
if test -f "$whatis"
# Some people use GNU tools on macOS, and GNU stat works differently.
# However it's currently guaranteed that the macOS stat is in /usr/bin,
# so we use that explicitly.
set age (math (date +%s) - (/usr/bin/stat -f %m $whatis))
end
MANPATH="$dir" apropos "^$argv"
if test $age -ge $max_age
test -d "$dir" || mkdir -m 700 -p $dir
/usr/libexec/makewhatis -o "$whatis" (man --path | string split :) >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &
end
end
else
function __fish_apropos
apropos $argv
end
end