CMDLINER-GENERIC-COMPLETION(1) Cmdliner Manual CMDLINER-GENERIC-COMPLETION(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

cmdliner-generic-completion - Output generic completion scripts

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**cmdliner generic-completion** \[*OPTION*]… *SHELL*

# [DESCRIPTION](#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](#ARGUMENTS)

[*SHELL* (required)](#SHELL)

*SHELL* the shell to support, must be one of **bash**, **zsh** or **pwsh**.

# [COMMON OPTIONS](#COMMON_OPTIONS)

[**--help**\[=*FMT*\] (default=**auto**)](#help)

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**](#version)

Show version information.

# [EXIT STATUS](#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).

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[cmdliner(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/ocaml4-cmdliner/cmdliner.1)

Cmdliner %%VERSION%%

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Document: cmdliner-generic-completion(1) from ocaml4-cmdliner 2.1.1-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/dbuenzli/cmdliner