NAME

podman-completion - Generate shell completion scripts
 

SYNOPSIS

podman completion [options] bash | zsh | fish | powershell
 

DESCRIPTION

podman completion generates shell completion scripts for a variety of shells. Supported shells are bash, zsh, fish and powershell.
 
These script are used by the shell to provide suggestions and complete commands when the command is typed and [TAB] is pressed.
 
Usually these scripts are automatically installed via the package manager.
 

OPTIONS

--file, -f=file

Write the generated output to a file.
 

--no-desc

Do not provide description in the completions.
 
The default is false.
 

Installation

BASH

bash-completion has to be installed on the system.
 
To load the completion script into the current session run:
 
source <(podman completion bash).
 
To make it available for all bash sessions run:
 
podman completion -f /etc/bash_completion.d/podman bash.
 

ZSH

Shell completion needs to be already enabled in the environment. The following can be executed:
 
echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
 
To make it available for all zsh sessions run:
 
podman completion -f "${fpath[1]}/_podman" zsh
 
Once the shell is reloaded the auto-completion should be working.
 

FISH

To load the completion script into the current session run: podman completion fish | source
 
To make it available for all fish sessions run: podman completion -f ~/.config/fish/completions/podman.fish fish
 

POWERSHELL

To load the completion script into the current session run: podman.exe completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
 
To make it available in all powershell sessions that a user has, write the completion output to a file and source that to the user's powershell profile. More information about profiles is available with Get-Help about_Profiles.
 

SEE ALSO

podman(1), zsh(1), fish(1), powershell(1)

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