FISH_UPDATE_COMPLETIONS(1)
π FISH_UPDATE_COMPLETIONS π
ok so first things first bestie, this is a page from the fish-shell manual, section 1, and it's about a lil command that goes and makes your completions happen. it's giving β¨housekeepingβ¨ and honestly? iconic.
π NAME π
fish_update_completions β update completions using manual pages
like, that's literally her whole job. she updates your completions by reading manual pages. periodt.
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
fish_update_completions
that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no arguments, no drama. just type her name and she goes πββοΈπ¨
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
okay so here's the tea β β fish_update_completions parses the manual pages that are installed on your system, and then it attempts to create completion files in the fish configuration directory. yes, "attempts" β she's trying her best and we love her for it π«Ά.
the way this works is lowkey genius: all those man pages just sitting there? she reads them and turns them into completions for you. free real estate π.
important bestie moment: this does not overwrite custom completions. your handcrafted stuff is safe. she would never π . no cap, your custom completions are staying exactly where you put them.
and just to be super clear β there are no parameters for fish_update_completions. none. zero. you can't pass her anything, she doesn't want anything, she's a self-sufficient main character π.
π Copyright π
fish-shell developers β the whole squad behind this. shoutout to them fr fr π«‘
and that's the vibe check! this page is from fish-shell version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026 β so you know it's fresh β¨. now go forth and let your completions slay π ππ¦
π¦ where this page comes from
- arch rolling: fish 4.9.3-1 Β· GPL-2.0-only AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND MIT AND PSF-2.0
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms