podman-completion

podman-completion(1) General Commands Manual podman-completion(1)

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 works.

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 pro‐
   files is available with Get-Help about_Profiles.