docker-compose/docs/completion.md

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Command Completion

Compose comes with command completion for the bash shell.

Installing Command Completion

Make sure bash completion is installed. If you use a current Linux in a non-minimal installation, bash completion should be available. On a Mac, install with brew install bash-completion

Place the completion script in /etc/bash_completion.d/ (/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ on a Mac), using e.g.

 curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/docker-compose/master/contrib/completion/bash/docker-compose > /etc/bash_completion.d/docker-compose

Completion will be available upon next login.

Available completions

Depending on what you typed on the command line so far, it will complete

• available docker-compose commands
• options that are available for a particular command
• service names that make sense in a given context (e.g. services with running or stopped instances or services based on images vs. services based on Dockerfiles). For docker-compose scale, completed service names will automatically have "=" appended.
• arguments for selected options, e.g. docker-compose kill -s will complete some signals like SIGHUP and SIGUSR1.

Enjoy working with Compose faster and with less typos!