docker-completion(1)

docker-completion1

Generate shell completion scripts

Part of podman-completion(1).

Usage

podman {completion [options] bash | zsh | fish | powershell}

Overview

podman completion generates shell completion scripts for a variety of shells. Supported shells are bash, zsh, fish and powershell.

These script are used by the shell to provide suggestions and complete commands when the command is typed and [TAB] is pressed.

Usually these scripts are automatically installed via the package manager.

Options

--file, -f=file

Write the generated output to a file.

--no-desc

Do not provide description in the completions.
The default is false.

Installation

Bash

bash-completion has to be installed on the system.

To load the completion script into the current session run:

source <(podman completion bash)

To make it available for all bash sessions run:

podman completion -f /etc/bash_completion.d/podman bash

ZSH

Shell completion needs to be already enabled in the environment. The following can be executed:

echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc

To make it available for all zsh sessions run:

podman completion -f "${fpath[1]}/_podman" zsh

Once the shell is reloaded the auto-completion works.

Fish

To load the completion script into the current session run:

podman completion fish | source

To make it available for all fish sessions run:

podman completion -f ~/.config/fish/completions/podman.fish fish

Powershell

To load the completion script into the current session run:

podman.exe completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

To make it available in all powershell sessions that a user has, write the completion output to a file and source that to the user's powershell profile. More information about profiles is available with Get-Help about_Profiles.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

From podman-docker 6.1.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.