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Unni P
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AWS CLI - Command Completion

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In this article we will look how we can enable command completion for AWS CLI.

Prerequisites

Install AWS CLI on the Ubuntu distribution.

$ aws --version aws-cli/2.13.32 Python/3.11.6 Linux/6.2.0-1012-aws exe/x86_64.ubuntu.22 prompt/off
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Configuration

Verify the path of aws_completer in our system.

$ which aws_completer /usr/local/bin/aws_completer
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Verify the shell of our system.

$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash
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Add the location of aws_completer in the PATH.

$ vi ~/.bash_profile export PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH
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Enable the command completion by adding the below entry in .bashrc file.

$ vim .bashrc complete -C '/usr/local/bin/aws_completer' aws
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Reload the profile to take the new changes.

$ source ~/.bash_profile $ source ~/.bashrc
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Verify the command completion.

$ aws dynamodb d<TAB> delete-backup describe-contributor-insights describe-import describe-time-to-live delete-item describe-endpoints describe-kinesis-streaming-destination disable-kinesis-streaming-destination delete-table describe-export describe-limits describe-backup describe-global-table describe-table describe-continuous-backups describe-global-table-settings describe-table-replica-auto-scaling
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Reference

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-completion.html

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