Command-line completion

Compose comes with command completion for the bash and zsh shell.

Install command completion

Bash

Make sure bash completion is installed.

• On a current Linux OS (in a non-minimal installation), bash completion should be available.

• On a Mac, install with brew install bash-completion.

Place the completion script in /etc/bash_completion.d/ (or /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ on a Mac):

sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/compose/1.20.0/contrib/completion/bash/docker-compose -o /etc/bash_completion.d/docker-compose

On a Mac, add the following to your ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi

You can source your ~/.bash_profile or launch a new terminal to utilize completion.

If you’re using MacPorts instead of brew, use the following steps instead:

Run sudo port install bash-completion to install bash completion. Add the following lines to ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f /opt/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh ]; then
    . /opt/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
fi

You can source your ~/.bash_profile or launch a new terminal to utilize completion.

Zsh

Place the completion script in your /path/to/zsh/completion (typically ~/.zsh/completion/):

$ mkdir -p ~/.zsh/completion
$ curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/compose/1.20.0/contrib/completion/zsh/_docker-compose > ~/.zsh/completion/_docker-compose

Include the directory in your $fpath by adding in ~/.zshrc:

fpath=(~/.zsh/completion $fpath)

Make sure compinit is loaded or do it by adding in ~/.zshrc:

autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -i

Then reload your shell:

exec $SHELL -l

Available completions

Depending on what you typed on the command line so far, it completes:

• available docker-compose commands
• options that are available for a particular command
• service names that make sense in a given context, such as services with running or stopped instances or services based on images vs. services based on Dockerfiles. For docker-compose scale, completed service names automatically have “=” appended.
• arguments for selected options. For example, docker-compose kill -s completes some signals like SIGHUP and SIGUSR1.

Enjoy working with Compose faster and with less typos!

Compose documentation

• User guide
• Installing Compose
• Get started with Django
• Get started with Rails
• Get started with WordPress
• Command line reference
• Compose file reference

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