NAME

cmdliner-generic-completion - Output generic completion scripts

SYNOPSIS

cmdliner generic-completion [OPTION]… SHELL

DESCRIPTION

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.

COMMON 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).