Autocompletion (Bash)

To enable Bash completion on Ubuntu comment out lines in ~/.bashrc

• /usr/share/bash-completion/completions
• /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ssh

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/#kubectl-autocomplete

source <(kubectl completion bash) # setup autocomplete in bash into the current shell, bash-completion package should be installed first.
echo "source <(kubectl completion bash)" >> ~/.bashrc # add autocomplete permanently to your bash shell.

apt install bash-completion
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bash-completion is already the newest version (1:2.8-1ubuntu1).
bash-completion set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

/etc/bash_completion
/etc/bash_completion.d/

Related terms

• complete Bash buildin function
• Aws cli: Auto-prompt

See also

• Autocompletion (Bash), complete, kubectl completion
• Bash, alias, &&, Bash history, Autocompletion, set, unset, export, .bashrc and .bash profile, PS1, echo, brace expansion, Function, shopt, trap, set -e, source, PATH, complete, disown, .hushlogin, .bashrc, builtin, eval, set