bionic (1) vis-complete.1.gz

Provided by: vis_0.4-2_amd64 bug

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.