podman-completion(1)

✨ podman-completion(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the podman-completion manual page 💖 this is from the General Commands Manual section of the podman docs, and it's genuinely one of the most underrated little glow-ups you can give your terminal. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

podman-completion — Generate shell completion scripts

like, it makes your shell finish your sentences for you. main character energy fr fr.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

podman completion generates shell completion scripts for a variety of shells. the supported shells are bash, zsh, fish and powershell. that's the whole roster, periodt. 👑

these scripts are used by the shell to provide suggestions and complete commands when the command is typed and [TAB] is pressed. so you type half a thing, smash tab, and the shell is like "say less, i got you" ✨

usually these scripts are automatically installed via the package manager, so lowkey you might already have this working and not even know. vibe check your tab key and find out.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --file, -f=file — write the generated output to a file. instead of dumping the script into your terminal like a little confetti cannon, it goes straight into file. 🍓
• --no-desc — do not provide description in the completions. the default is false.

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💅 INSTALLATION 💅

🌈 BASH

bash-completion has to be installed on the system. no bash-completion, no magic, sorry bestie 😭

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 works. reload and slay. 🔥

⭐ 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.

ngl the powershell one is a whole journey, but you got this 🫶

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🙈 SEE ALSO 🙈

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was podman-completion(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yes, the page does sign itself off by saying podman-completion(1) again at the bottom like it's hyping itself up in the mirror. iconic behavior honestly. now go press tab and enjoy the ✨suggestions✨ 🌸💅