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

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-completion - Generate shell completion scripts

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

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

# [DESCRIPTION](#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](#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](#Installation)

## [BASH](#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](#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](#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](#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](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-fips/podman.1), [**zsh(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-fips/zsh.1), [**fish(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-fips/fish.1), [**powershell(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-fips/powershell.1)

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Document: podman-completion(1) from podman-fips 6.0.0-r2 (Chainguard OS)