cmdliner-generic-completion1

Usage

Overview

cmdliner generic-completion outputs the generic cmdliner completion script for a given shell. Examples:

cmdliner generic-completion zsh

eval $(cmdliner generic-completion zsh)

The script needs to be loaded in a shell for tool specific scripts output by the command tool-completion to work. See command install generic-completion to install them.

Arguments

SHELL (required)

SHELL the shell to support, must be one of bash, zsh or pwsh.

Options

--help[=FMT] (default=auto)

Show this help in format FMT. The value FMT must be one of auto, pager, groff or plain. With auto, the format is pager or plain whenever the TERM env var is dumb or undefined.

--version

Show version information.

Exit status

cmdliner generic-completion exits with:

0

on success.

123

on indiscriminate errors reported on standard error.

124

on command line parsing errors.

125

on unexpected internal errors (bugs).