Docker command line completion in Bash

docker-cmd-completion.md

Docker Command Line Completion in Bash

Prerequisites

1. Make sure bash completion is installed(It's installed by default in major Linux distributions, and Cygwin).
2. Put completion files to /etc/bash_completion.d/

Completion Files

• docker command: https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/blob/v18.06.0-ce/components/cli/contrib/completion/bash/docker
• docker-compose command: https://github.com/docker/compose/blob/1.23.1/contrib/completion/bash/docker-compose
• docker-machine command: https://github.com/docker/machine/blob/v0.16.0/contrib/completion/bash/docker-machine.bash

Note: the version part in the URL, such as v18.06.0-ce, 1.23.1 and v0.16.0, is subject to changes.

References

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43169986/how-to-get-docker-objects-completion-on-mintty-bash-from-git-for-windows/
• https://docs.docker.com/compose/completion/
• https://docs.docker.com/machine/completion/