fish-shell/share/functions/__fish_whatis.fish
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi ab0f1d33fe Make use of the new PCRE2 escaping feature
Fixes some potentially unsafe uses of direct substitution into regex
expressions and also switches some completions to regex-based now that
there is a safe way of using it.
2018-11-15 12:37:29 -06:00

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# uses `whatis` if available to describe a command
function __fish_whatis
set -l cmd $argv[1]
set -l fallback
if set -q argv[2]
set fallback $argv[2]
end
set -l description (whatis $cmd 2>/dev/null | string replace -r '.*? - ' '')[1]
if not string match -qr -- "." "$description"
printf '%s\n' $description
return 0
else if not string match -q -- "$fallback" ""
printf '%s\n' $fallback
return 0
else
return 1
end
end