Bash-only Laravel Artisan tab auto-complete

README.md

This version uses a little cache mechanic to reduce waiting time between pressing tabs.

If you are an Oh-my-zsh user, see the Laravel 5 plugin

For the rest of us Bash users, all of the Laravel Artisan autocomplete solutions out there require installing a composer package to get a list of artisan commands. Turns out this isn't really necessary. Simply add the provided code in ~/.bash_profile ( or similarly sourced file ) and you'll get artisan command tab completes on any project on your system.

ARTISAN_COMMANDS=`php artisan --raw --no-ansi list | sed "s/[[:space:]].*//g"`
_artisan()
{
	COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//:}
	COMPREPLY=(`compgen -W "$ARTISAN_COMMANDS" -- "${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"`)
	return 0
}
complete -F _artisan artisan
alias artisan='php artisan'

In case you got:

stdout is not a tty

errors on Windows git-bash or similar, change the ARTISAN_COMMANDS= line to:

ARTISAN_COMMANDS=`php.exe artisan --raw --no-ansi list | sed "s/[[:space:]].*//g"`