Shell Completion

Pipes includes a helper --_completion flag which can be used by terminals to provide autocomplete options. Below are instructions for setting up autocompletion for Bash, Zsh, Fish, and pdksh.

If you have ideas for improving these please share them with use over at the Pipes repo

Warning

Pipes cannot activate an pipenv shell when one is already active, thefore the autocompletion helper does not run either. Make sure you are not inside a Pipenv Shell when trying to use the autocomplete helper.

Fish

Add a new file pipes.fish to your Fish config folder (eg. ~/.config/fish/completions/pipes.fish).

complete --command pipes --arguments '(pipes --_completion (commandline -cp))' --no-files
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Bash + Zsh

Original code kindly provided by jonatasbaldin here

Add the code below to your .bashrc:

# .bashrc
export BASE_SHELL=$(basename $SHELL)

if [[ "$BASE_SHELL" == "zsh" ]] ; then
autoload bashcompinit && bashcompinit
fi

_pipenv-pipes_completions() {
COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$(pipes --_completion)" -- "${COMP_WORDS[1]}"))
}

complete -F _pipenv-pipes_completions pipes
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pdksh

pdksh is native shell on OpenBSD.

To have a shell completion, write into your personal ~/.profile, after the call of exported environments variables for your Python, as WORKON_HOME:

set -A complete_pipes -- $(pipes --_completion)

Restart your session or a new terminal ;)