rpk generate shell-completion

Bash autocompletion relies on the bash-completion package. You can test if you have this by running type _init_completion, if you do not, you can install the package through your package manager.

If you have bash-completion installed, and the command still fails, you likely need to add the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

source /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

To ensure autocompletion of rpk exists in all shell sessions, add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

command -v rpk >/dev/null && . <(rpk generate shell-completion bash)

Alternatively, to globally enable rpk completion, you can run the following:

If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment, you will need to enable it. You can execute the following once:

To enable autocompletion in any zsh session for any user, run this once:

Linux:

macOS:

You can also place that command in your ~/.zshrc to ensure that when you update rpk, you update autocompletion. If you initially require sudo to edit that file, you can chmod it to be world writeable, after which you will always be able to update it from ~/.zshrc.

To enable autocompletion in any fish session, run: