function __fish_complete_man if test (commandline -ct) # Try to guess what section to search in. If we don't know, we # use [^)]*, which should match any section set section "" set prev (commandline -poc) set -e prev[1] while count $prev switch $prev[1] case '-**' case '*' set section $prev[1] end set -e prev[1] end set section $section"[^)]*" # Do the actual search apropos (commandline -ct) ^/dev/null | awk ' BEGIN { FS="[\t ]- "; OFS="\t"; } # BSD/Darwin /^[^( \t]+\('$section'\)/ { split($1, pages, ", "); for (i in pages) { page = pages[i]; sub(/[ \t]+/, "", page); paren = index(page, "("); name = substr(page, 1, paren - 1); sect = substr(page, paren + 1, length(page) - paren - 1); print name, sect ": " $2; } } # man-db /^[^( \t]+ +\('$section'\)/ { split($1, t, " "); sect = substr(t[2], 2, length(t[2]) - 2); print t[1], sect ": " $2; } # man-db RHEL 5 with [aliases] /^[^( \t]+ +\[.*\] +\('$section'\)/ { split($1, t, " "); sect = substr(t[3], 2, length(t[3]) - 2); print t[1], sect ": " $2; } # Solaris 11 # Does not display descriptions # Solaris apropos outputs embedded backspace in descriptions /^[0-9]+\. [^( \t]*\('$section'\) / { split($1, t, " ") paren = index(t[2], "("); name = substr(t[2], 1, paren - 1); sect = substr(t[2], paren + 1, length(t[2]) - paren - 1); print name, sect } ' end end