Aws-cli: v2 : AWS ZSH completer does not exist

[sebsto]

v2 is not shipping aws_zsh_completer.sh like v1 did.
Doc is not up-to-date https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-completion.html

zsh completion is important because zsh is the default shell on Mac OS 15 (Catalina)

[matsev]

FWIW: I had the same issue and used the same completion instructions as for bash, i.e. I added the following lines to my ~/.zshrc file:

complete -C '/usr/local/aws/bin/aws_completer' aws

I have not done any exhaustive tests yet, but it looks promising so far...

[sebsto]

% complete -C '/usr/local/aws/bin/aws_completer' aws
zsh: command not found: complete

[KaibaLopez]

hi @sebsto ,
What are the outputs you get on these?
which aws_completer
-or-
find / -name aws_completer --this one might take a bit longer.

[matsev]

@sebsto I don't recall installing complete specifically. I guess that it was installed as part of oh-my-zsh that I use.

[jonny-rimek]

duplicate of https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4656, see for more information

[fmedery]

@matsev that is correct the function complete is part of oh-my-zsh

which complete                                                                                                                                    
complete () {
    emulate -L zsh
    local args void cmd print remove
    args=("$@")
    zparseopts -D -a void o: A: G: W: C: F: P: S: X: a b c d e f g j k u v p=print r=remove
    if [[ -n $print ]]
    then
        printf 'complete %2$s %1$s\n' "${(@kv)_comps[(R)_bash*]#* }"
    elif [[ -n $remove ]]
    then
        for cmd
        do
            unset "_comps[$cmd]"
        done
    else
        compdef _bash_complete\ ${(j. .)${(q)args[1,-1-$#]}} "$@"
    fi
}

[sebsto]

@KaibaLopez

~ % which aws_completer
/usr/local/bin/aws_completer

Problem does not lie in aws_completer. Looking at the above comments, it looks like that stock zsh has no "complete()" function. It is added by oh-my-zsh.

AWS doc should add installation instruction for Oh My ZSH or provide an alternative install path for "raw" zsh.

[KaibaLopez]

hmm...
Yea regardless of the solution the fact remains that the documentation is outdated if the aws_zsh_completer.sh file is not there.
Thanks for pointing it out!