fish-shell/share/functions/__fish_describe_command.fish
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi e8a35bfaa8 Prevent errors in __fish_describe_command when apropos isn't installed
__fish_describe_command now bails early if `type -q apropos` returns a
non-zero exit code.
2018-08-16 13:20:04 -05:00

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#
# 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