# Homebrew Shell Completion

Homebrew comes with completion definitions for the `brew` command. Some packages also provide completion definitions for their own programs.

`zsh`, `bash` and `fish` are currently supported. (Homebrew provides `brew` completions for `zsh` and `bash`; `fish` provides its own `brew` completions.)

You must configure your shell to enable the completion support. This is because the Homebrew-managed completions are stored under `HOMEBREW_PREFIX`, which your system shell may not be aware of, and because it is difficult to automatically configure `bash` and `zsh` completions in a robust manner, so the Homebrew installer cannot do it for you.

## Configuring Completions in `bash`

To make Homebrew's completions available in `bash`, you must source the definitions as part of your shell startup. Add the following to your `~/.bash_profile` file:

```sh
HOMEBREW_PREFIX=$(brew --prefix)
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
  for COMPLETION in "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX"/etc/bash_completion.d/*
  do
    [[ -f $COMPLETION ]] && source "$COMPLETION"
  done
  if [[ -f ${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh ]];
  then
    source "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh"
  fi
fi
```

## Configuring Completions in `zsh`

To make Homebrew's completions available in `zsh`, you must get the Homebrew-managed zsh site-functions on your `FPATH` before initialising `zsh`'s completion facility. Add the following to your `~/.zshrc` file:

```sh
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
  FPATH=$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions:$FPATH
fi
```

This must be done before `compinit` is called. Note that if you are using Oh My Zsh, it will call `compinit` for you, so this must be done before you call `oh-my-zsh.sh`.

You may also need to forcibly rebuild `zcompdump`:

```sh
  rm -f ~/.zcompdump; compinit
```

Additionally, if you receive "zsh compinit: insecure directories" warnings when attempting to load these completions, you may need to run this:

```sh
  chmod go-w "$(brew --prefix)/share"
```

## Configuring Completions in `fish`

No configuration is needed in `fish`. Friendly!