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Create custom tab completion profiles for your applications

Bash

1. Create the .bash_completion file. touch ~/.bash_completion

2. Create the .bash_completion.d directory. mkdir ~/.bash_completion.d

3. Edit ~/.bash_completion and enter the text below to have it scan ~/.bash_completion.d/ for completion data. nano ~/.bash_completion

    # Add each completion script in the bash_completion.d directory
    for file in ~/.bash_completion.d/*
    do
        if [[ ${file##*/} != @(*~|*.bak) ]]; then
            # Does not seem to be a forgotten backup file
            if [ \( -f $file -o -h $file \) -a -r $file ]; then
                # The file is a regular file or a symbolic link, and is
                # readable by this script (for the user running the script).
                # That is good enough for us - source the file
                . $file
            fi
        fi
    done
   

4. Save the file with Ctrl+x followed by y and Enter when prompted to overwrite the existing file.

5. Put your tab completion data in ~/.bash_completion.d/<App>
   For example: ~/.bash_completion.d/rclone

6. Restart your shell or source ~/.bash_completion for the new tab completion data to take effect. source ~/.bash_completion

Zsh

rclone

rclone offers a tool for creating tab completion data

Bash

Create the tab completion data into your ~/.bash_completion.d/ directory

    rclone genautocomplete bash ~/.bash_completion.d/rclone