Usage: source ~/setup-pants-completion.sh

setup-pants-completion.sh

_pants_goal_completion() {
    # invoke pants to list goals
    local pants_command=${COMP_WORDS[0]}
    local goals_array=$(PANTS_NO_TRANSLATION=1 $pants_command -q goals | grep -v "Installed goals" | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')

    # ...or use a precomputed list
    #local goals_array="autoblame bash-completion binary bootstrap builddict buildprops bundle changed check_published_deps clean-all clean-all-async compile compile-changed compute-buildprops deferred-sources dependees dependees_owners dependencies depmap detect-duplicates doc eclipse ensime export filedeps filemap filter gen goals idea invalidate jar killserver list markdown minimize ng-killall path pathdeps paths publish repl repl-dirty resolve roots run run-dirty server setup-py sort targets test test-changed thrift-linter unpack-jars"

    local prefix=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
    if [[ $prefix == *"/"* ]]; then
        # default to directory names matching 
        COMPREPLY=()
        return 0
    fi

    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "$goals_array" -- $prefix) )
}
complete -o dirnames -F _pants_goal_completion pants