Completion not working with Bash about kubectl-aliases HOT 6 CLOSED

@imduffy15 yes, you can use complete-alias. The following enables completion for each of the kubectl aliases:

for a in $(sed '/^alias /!d;s/^alias //;s/=.*$//' ~/.kubectl_aliases); do
  complete -F _complete_alias "$a"
done

The _complete_alias function is provided by complete-alias and it can be used to enable completion for every alias in general (as long as the aliased command has completion itself).

complete-alias depends on bash-completion, so you have to install it too.

If you use macOS, it won't work on the built-in version of Bash, because this is Bash version 3.2. You have to install Bash 4.1+ and bash-completion 2+.

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Sounds like a bash question and not about kubectl-aliases. :) I personally use zsh, too so I don't hit this. I recommend you ask this on https://superuser.com.

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It is a Bash issue. I just asked because you mention in your post that kubectl completion keeps working with the aliases. So, in that case, this only holds for Zsh, but not for Bash.

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@weibeld did you have a resolution for this?

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Works perfectly. Thank you @weibeld

@ahmetb Are you open to a PR that places this advice into the readme? :)

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We can link from the readme, sure.

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