hosts/etc

hosts Tab Completion

Homebrew

Installing via Homebrew with brew install xwmx/taps/hosts will also install the completion scripts.

A one-time setup might be needed to enable completion for all Homebrew programs.

npm, bpkg, Make

When hosts is installed with npm, bpkg, or Make, an install hook will check the environment and attempt to install completions. If it's successful, you should see a message similar to:

Completion installed: /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/hosts-completion.bash
Completion installed: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_hosts

If completion is working after installing through any of these methods, then you don't need to do anything else.

scripts/hosts-completion

hosts includes a script for installing and uninstalling hosts completions that is used in installation hooks: hosts-completion

To run this script directly, navigate to this directory in your terminal, and run:

./hosts-completion

To install completions:

./hosts-completion install

To uninstall:

./hosts-completion uninstall

Use the check subcommand to determine if completion scripts are installed:

> ./hosts-completion check
Exists: /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/hosts-completion.bash
Exists: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_hosts

This script will try to determine the completion installation locations from your environment. If completion doesn't work, you might need to try installing manually.

Manual Installation

bash

Linux

On a current Linux OS (in a non-minimal installation), bash completion should be available.

Place the completion script in /etc/bash_completion.d/:

sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xwmx/hosts/master/hosts-completion.bash -o /etc/bash_completion.d/hosts

macOS

If you aren't installing with homebrew, source the completion script in .bash_profile:

if [[ -f /path/to/hosts-completion.bash ]]
then
  source /path/to/hosts-completion.bash
fi

zsh

Place the completion script in your /path/to/zsh/completion (typically ~/.zsh/completion/):

$ mkdir -p ~/.zsh/completion
$ curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xwmx/hosts/master/hosts-completion.zsh > ~/.zsh/completion/_hosts

Include the directory in your $fpath by adding in ~/.zshrc:

fpath=(~/.zsh/completion $fpath)

Make sure compinit is loaded or do it by adding in ~/.zshrc:

autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -i

Then reload your shell:

exec $SHELL -l