Autocompletion - where to get ~/completions/lxd.lxc file from?

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Continuing the discussion from [LXD 4.7] Autocompletion on ubuntu 20.04:

I would love to have some bash completion for lxd/Incus. By that I mean that when typing something like

  • lxc list deb <tab> will autocomplete to i.e. debian, debian12
  • lxc exe <tab> will autocomplete to exec
  • …

where would you get that file (lxd.lxc) from exactly?
I am on manjaro linux, running lxd 5.7, installed via pacman.

Is it a shortcoming of the distributions package if that is nowhere on the system?

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Yes, the file is available in the upstream repository.

Same deal for incus, we have a bash completion script, our Debian packages include that file as you can see when using tab-completion at Linux Containers - Incus - Try it online

The file is here in the upstream repo: https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/main/scripts/bash/incus

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thx. Maybe things got mixed up when I switched from snap lxd to pacman lxd.

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I’m using incus 0.6 installed via the Zabbly deb repository on Ubuntu 22.04 minimal, and was also not getting autocompletion features. After installing bash-completion, which is not part of Ubuntu minimal, and restarting the terminal session, I’m getting all the nice auto completion.

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I’ll add bash-completions as a Suggests on the incus-client package.

I don’t want it to get pulled automatically but having it mentioned would be good.

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