# complete

The `complete` command is inherited from the python-cliff library, it can be used to generate a bash-completion script. Currently, the command will generate a script for bash versions 3 or 4. The bash-completion script is printed directly to standard out.

Typical usage for this command is:

    openstack complete | sudo tee /etc/bash_completion.d/osc.bash_completion > /dev/null

It is highly recommended to install `python-openstackclient` from a package (`apt-get` or `yum`). In some distributions the package `bash-completion` is shipped as dependency, and the openstack complete command will be run as a post-install action, however not every distribution include this dependency and you might need to install `bash-completion` package to enable autocomplete feature.

## complete

print bash completion command

    openstack complete

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