Install Command Completion¶

The Confluent CLI and Confluent Cloud CLI support autocompletion for Bash.

Prerequisites

The Confluent CLI or Confluent Cloud CLI <https://docs.confluent.io/ccloud-cli/current/install.html>`__ must be installed.

Follow these instructions to install Bash autocompletion.

MacOS¶

Install Homebrew.
Install Bash completion.
```
brew install bash-completion
```

Add bash-completion to your Bash profile (~/.bash_profile). The _completion file is created in the next step.

Confluent Cloud CLI

Update your Bash profile for the Confluent Cloud CLI.

# Add autocompletion for the Confluent Cloud CLI
. /usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
source ~/.ccloud_completion

Confluent CLI

Update your Bash profile for the Confluent CLI.

# Add autocompletion for the Confluent CLI
. /usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
source ~/.confluent_completion

Run this command to create your CLI completion file.
Confluent Cloud CLI
Run this command to install auto completion for the Confluent Cloud CLI.
ccloud completion bash >> ~/.ccloud_completion
Confluent CLI
Run this command to install auto completion for the Confluent CLI.
confluent completion bash >> ~/.confluent_completion

You can now autocomplete commands. For example, you can type ccloud service-account or confluent iam, and hit Tab to scroll through the available commands.

Ubuntu/Debian¶

Install Bash completion.
```
sudo apt-get install bash-completion
```