cmdliner-tool-completion(1)

cmdliner-tool-completion1

Output tool completion scripts

Usage

cmdliner tool-completion [--standalone-completion] [OPTION] … SHELL TOOLNAME

Overview

cmdliner tool-completion outputs the tool specific completion script of a given shell. Example:

cmdliner tool-completion zsh mytool

Note that tool specific completion script need the corresponding generic completion script output by generic-completion to be loaded in the shell. To install these scripts see command install tool-completion.

Arguments

SHELL (required)

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

TOOLNAME (required)

TOOLNAME is the name of the tool to complete.

Options

--standalone-completion

Generate standalone completion scripts. These scripts do not depend on the generic cmdliner completion scripts. For some shells this may result in slower completion.

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 tool-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).

From ocaml-cmdliner 2.1.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.