Cli: Bash/ZSH Completion Not Working

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Background

I've followed the docs here to enable bash completion on my machine with no success.

Information

• My terminal is running ZSH, I've tried both files to enable completion.
• This is set inside main.go: app.EnableBashCompletion = true.
• Binary for MacOS is built and stored inside the /usr/local/bin directory. Running mycli somecommand someargument works fine.
• Typing mycli followed by the tab key produces results for the files inside my current directory, not subcommands.
• go.mod includes github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.3.

Questions

• Should it the only step be to run PROG=mycli source zsh_autocomplete anywhere (assuming zsh_autocomplete is in the current directory)?
• Is there any other information I could provide to help further elaborate?

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[6543]

@joebateh for bash completion i did:
sudo wget -O /etc/bash_completion.d/tea https://raw.githubusercontent.com/urfave/cli/master/autocomplete/bash_autocomplete && sudo chmod +x /etc/bash_completion.d/tea

[ghost]

Hey @6543, I gave that a shot on both MacOS and Ubuntu with no success. I'm still getting directories instead of autocomplete suggestions.

[6543]

:point_up: you have to replace tea with the name of your command - but I guess you did

what is returned when you do ./your-tool --generate-bash-completion?

[ghost]

I tried running the command below:

sudo wget -O /etc/bash_completion.d/mycli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/urfave/cli/master/autocomplete/bash_autocomplete && sudo chmod +x /etc/bash_completion.d/mycli

Then I typed mycli followed by pressing the tab character. It still shows up with the local directory as opposed to autocompletion.

If I type mycli --generate-bash-completion I see the set of subcommands for any given command, so it seems like whatever logic generates that _can_ do it. It's just not saving or pulling it in somewhere else.

Is there anything basic I might be missing?

[6543]

do you have [ -r /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ] && . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion in youe ~/.bashrc ?

[ghost]

It wasn't there, but I added it with no success.

[6543]

ok at this point I also have no idear ...