VIS-COMPLETE(1) General Commands Manual VIS-COMPLETE(1)
NAME
vis-complete — Interactively complete file or word
SYNOPSIS
vis-complete [−-file] [−-word] [--] [pattern]
vis-complete −h | −-help
DESCRIPTION
vis-complete takes a pattern on the command-line and completes file or word and displays them in a menu for the user to select one. Once the user has selected a completion, the completion (excluding the pattern) is printed to standard output.
vis-complete uses vis-menu(1) as its user-interface, so see that page for more details.
−-file
This passes pattern to find to obtain a list of matching file names.
−-word
This reads standard input to obtain a list of lines matching pattern.
−−
If this token is encountered before the first non-option argument, all following arguments will be treated as pattern, even if they would otherwise be valid command-line options.
If encountered after the first non-option argument, or after a previous instance of -- it is treated as a pattern.
pattern
The pattern to be completed by file or word.
−h | −-help
If present, vis-complete prints a usage summary and exits, ignoring any other flag and arguments.
EXIT STATUS
The vis-complete utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
In particular, like vis-menu(1), vis-complete prints nothing and sets its exit status to 1 if the user refused to select a file.
SEE ALSO
vis(1), vis-menu(1)
BUGS
Because vis-complete uses find(1) to obtain the list of files, weird things might happen if you have control-characters in your filenames. Vis 0.8 January 15, 2017 VIS-COMPLETE(1)