Bash-only Laravel Artisan tab auto-complete

README.md

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

I wrote a small script so you can call artisan from sub directories of the project,
e.g: project/app/example $ artisan,
instead of only project $ artisan.

If interested, install it from here then change php artisan to artisan in your completion function.

https://github.com/DRSDavidSoft/artisan-root/

Demo:

@DRSDavidSoft ahh yes, those is one of the two cases that annoy me...

1. having to change back to the webroot to run stuff
2. not having autocompletion when i prefix it with sail

But I'm a little more lazy that you, and opted for this fix to find the webroot, inspired by you.

.bashrc

artisan () {
    pushd . > /dev/null
    while test ! -e artisan; do
        [[ $PWD == '/' ]] && break
        cd .. > /dev/null
    done
    test -e artisan && php artisan "$@"
    popd > /dev/null
}

sail () { 
    pushd . > /dev/null;
    while test ! -e artisan; do
        [[ $PWD == '/' ]] && break;
        cd .. > /dev/null;
    done;
    test -e artisan && { 
        vendor/laravel/sail/bin/sail "$@";
    };
    popd > /dev/null
}

@sfinktah Awesome idea, even better to write it directly in bash instead of php! 👍

@sfinktah Thank you, it should be in the Laravel/Sail docs!

@zahardev
@taylorotwell

Thanks! But I can't even get permission to contribute to the Laravel Nova repo, and I'm a paid subscriber.

P.S. @matthiasl Euphoria BBS?