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I am trying to install Homebrew onto my M1 Mac. My default shell is zsh and I want to keep it that way. I ran:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
and it said the installation was successful however after trying the command brew doctor and brew help both returned the error zsh: command not found: brew
I don't know a whole lot about shells or programming so anything I can try would be helpful.
I then was about to try un/re installing it and ran:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
but a warning came up to migrate to this command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"
this leads me to believe maybe it is just located in the wrong shell?
cd /opt/homebrew/bin/
PATH=$PATH:/opt/homebrew/bin
cd
touch .zshrc
echo export PATH=$PATH:/opt/homebrew/bin >> .zshrc
Run the commands in that order in terminal, you'll be editing the path and creating the missing .zshrc file, exporting the path to this new file.
Now you should be able to use:
brew doctor
It should say: "Your system is ready to brew."
The bash deprecation warning from macOS can safely be ignored, or you can add export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1 to ~/.bashrc` to permanently silence it.
The initial brew setup script you're using was deprecated, you'll want to use /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)". I've skimmed that script and I think it's actually zsh compatible too, but not 100% sure. This will set it up to be accessible by any shells, as long as you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH. (export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" in your ~/.zshrc, or path+=/usr/local/bin to use the zsh-specific syntax).
If you run which zsh you should still see some output; if your default shell did get changed some, you can change it back using chsh -s /bin/zsh.
EDIT:
I missed that you said you have an M1 Mac. According to the install script, the brew prefix is /opt/homebrew on ARM-based Macs (apparently this is to work around needing sudo for operations in /usr/local). I don't have a new Mac to test with, but adding path+=/opt/homebrew/bin to a new file at ~/.zshrc should to the trick.
This has helped me:
Add Homebrew to your PATH in ~/.zprofile:
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
I encountered the same issue and solved it with these steps:
From the terminal, command sudo vi ~/.zshrc
Enter insert mode (type I on your keyboard) then paste
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin:$PATH"
Type :wq! to write and quit vim.
Close the terminal.
Reopen the terminal and type brew to confirm it's working.
If the issue persists:
By default, Homebrew installs some packages in these directories:
/usr/local/bin/brew , /usr/local/share/doc/homebrew.
It's worth checking if HomeBrew is inside these. To open finder on a Mac, command + shift + G. If you're unable to locate it, you may need to reinstall it.
I'm using a Macbook, macOS Big Sur - version 11.6.4
i get the seam problem.
so i install it again. i copy this command to the terminal.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
when i get the tips
Next steps:
- Run these three commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:
echo '# Set PATH, MANPATH, etc., for Homebrew.' >> /Users/ven/.zprofile
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/ven/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
- Run brew help to get started
- Further documentation:
https://docs.brew.sh
than i copy three commands into the termainal one by one
echo '# Set PATH, MANPATH, etc., for Homebrew.' >> /Users/ven/.zprofile
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/ven/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
typeing 'brew' in the terminal, than it's working.
In my case (macOS M1) homebrew worked very inconsistently - the not found error appeared every time I ran a brew command in a fresh terminal session. Turns out that the opt/homebrew/... values in .zshrc were getting overwritten by other PATH values at some point. Ordering is crucial here.
So to add to #6754534367 's answer, you want to make sure your PATH reflects homebrew having priority over other PATH values (placed before most other values). See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35677348/11705094.
PS: handy to include the sbin PATH too.
In the end my .zshrc file looked as follows (e.g.):
export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/joris.van.der.burgh/Library/Application_Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/scriptseval
After doing so, my homebrew worked consistently and no more doctors were needed.
I am on a M2 MacBook and you jest need to follow instructions brew gives after installation!
This is driving me nuts! I did a lot of googling and tried various things. (I do not consider this to be a superuser topic)
I'm having a lot of troubles with terminal lately. I must have messed up somewhere, because it used to work just fine and now I can't get it to recognize my commands anymore neither nvm or global npm packages like expo. It just gives me errors like this:
▶ expo
zsh: command not found: expo
▶ nvm ls
zsh: command not found: nvm
(BTW: npm, brew and j commands are found 🤔)
If I do echo $PATH I get:
/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin:/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk/tools:/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:/Applications/anaconda/bin:~/Library/Python/2.7/bin:~/.npm-global/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
(strange behavior is that if I do echo $PATH again it returns two times the same output in one line)
A readable version of it (replacing : with :\n
/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin:
/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk/tools:
/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:
/Applications/anaconda/bin:
~/Library/Python/2.7/bin:
~/.npm-global/bin:
/usr/local/bin:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/sbin:
/sbin
My .zshrc file looks like this:
# Node & NPM
#PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
PATH="~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"
#PATH="~/.npm-global/lib/node_modules:$PATH"
# Git
alias master="git checkout master"
alias dev="git checkout develop"
alias hotfix="git flow hotfix"
alias feature="git flow feature"
alias tags="git push --tags"
# Pip - https://gist.github.com/haircut/14705555d58432a5f01f9188006a04ed
PATH="~/Library/Python/2.7/bin:$PATH"
# added by Anaconda2 4.4.0 installer
PATH="/Applications/anaconda/bin:$PATH"
# Android
export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/norfeldt/Library/Android/sdk
PATH="${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools:$PATH"
PATH="${ANDROID_HOME}/tools:$PATH"
PATH="${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin:$PATH"
alias emu="pushd ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools;emulator -avd Pixel_2; popd"
# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH=/Users/norfeldt/.oh-my-zsh
ZSH_THEME="avit"
# Autojump
[[ -s `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh ]] && . `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh
# shell startup.
plugins=(git)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
# Load zsh-autosuggestions.
source /usr/local/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
# zsh-syntax-highlighting
source /Users/norfeldt/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
export PATH
ANY help would be HIGHLY appreciated!
UPDATE
Reading the kind answer from #l'L'l and this answer I did the following:
Updated my .bash_profile to
export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
(it's the only thing in that file)
created a .bashrc by $touch .bashrc (Might have deleted the old one.. But this is just an empty file..)
Added the following lines to .zshrc
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.npm-global/bin/" # Changed ~ to $HOME
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.npm-global/lib/node_modules" # Changed ~ to $HOME
...
# Bash stuff
source ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bash_profile
Did a source ~/.zshrc and restarted my terminal.
NOW the nvm AND expo works! THANKS
There are a few things you might try, the first would be to source ~/.bash_profile from your .zshrc file. It's possible the nvm command was setup there and your zsh shell simply doesn't know it exists.
Note: On OS X, if you get nvm: command not found after running the
install script, one of the following might be the reason:-
your system may not have a .bash_profile file where the command is
set up. Simply create one with touch ~/.bash_profile and run the
install script again you might need to restart your terminal instance.
Try opening a new tab/window in your terminal and retry. If the above
doesn't fix the problem, open your .bash_profile and add
the following line of code:
source ~/.bashrc
For more information about this issue and possible workarounds, please
refer here
↑ Since you are using zsh instead at source ~/.bash_profile & ~/.bashrc in .zshrc.
If you used homebrew to install, then you might want to add the following into .zshrc:
export/source nvm installed with homebrew:
# source nvm
export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
if hash brew 2>/dev/null; then
source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh
source `brew --prefix`/etc/profile.d/z.sh
fi
npm not installed via homebrew:
export NVM_DIR="~/.nvm"
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
[[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ]] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # load nvm
[[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ]] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # load nvm bash_completion
↳ https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
I have no OSX to try... but the paths for zsh might belong into there:
/etc/paths, /private/etc/paths or into /private/etc/paths.d
Beside that, there's an auto-complete plugin for npm.
E.g. on a fresh ubuntu machine, I've just run sudo apt-get git, and there's no completion when typing e.g. git check[tab].
I didn't find anything on http://git-scm.com/docs, but IIRC completion is included in the git package these days and I just need the right entry in my bashrc.
On Linux
On most distributions, git completion script is installed into /etc/bash_completion.d/ (or /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git) when you install git, no need to go to github. You just need to use it - add this line to your .bashrc:
source /etc/bash_completion.d/git
# or
source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git
In some versions of Ubuntu, git autocomplete may be broken by default, reinstalling by running this command should fix it:
sudo apt-get install git-core bash-completion
On Mac
You can install git completion using Homebrew or MacPorts.
Homebrew
if $BASH_VERSION > 4: brew install bash-completion#2 (updated version)
Pay special care which version of bash you have as MacOS default ships with 3.2.57(1)-release.
add to .bash_profile:
[[ -r "/usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh" ]] && . "/usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh"
For older versions of bash: brew install bash-completion
add to .bash_profile:
[ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion ] && . /usr/local/etc/bash_completion
MacPorts
sudo port install git +bash_completion
then add this to your .bash_profile:
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
fi
more info in this guide: Install Bash git completion
Note that in all cases you need to create a new shell (open a new terminal tab/window) for changes to take effect.
i had same issue, followed below steps:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash
then add the following lines to your .bash_profile (generally under your home folder)
if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
. ~/.git-completion.bash
fi
source : http://code-worrier.com/blog/autocomplete-git/
Most of the instructions you see will tell you to download
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
and source that in your bash startup script like .bashrc.
But there is a problem with that, because it is referencing the master branch, which is the latest version of git-completion.bash. The problem is that sometimes it will break because it is not compatible with the version of git you've installed.
In fact, right now that will break because the master branch's git-completion.bash has new features that requires git v2.18, which none of the package managers and installers have updated to yet. You'll get an error unknown option: --list-cmds=list-mainporcelain,others,nohelpers,alias,list-complete,config
So the safest solution is to reference the version/tag that matches the git you've installed. For example:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/v2.17.1/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
Note that it has a v2.17. in the URL instead of master. And then, of course, make sure to source that in the bash startup script.
Ubuntu 14.10
Install git-core and bash-completion
sudo apt-get install -y git-core bash-completion
For current session usage
source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git
To have it always on for all sessions
echo "source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git" >> ~/.bashrc
Just do this in your ~/.bashrc:
source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git
Other answers are telling you to install bash-completion, you don't need to do that, but if you do, then there's no need to source the completion directly. You do one or the other, not both.
A more generic solution is querying the system location as recommended by the bash-completion project:
source "$(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion)"/git
See https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
You just need to source the completion script
on my ubuntu there is a file installed here:
source /etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt
you can follow the links into the /usr/lib/git-core folder. You can find there an instruction, how to set up PS1 or use __git_ps1
macOS via Xcode Developer Tools
Of all the answers currently posted for macOS, this is only mentioned in a very brief comment by jmt...
If you already have the Xcode developer tools installed, then you shouldn't need to download anything new.
Instead, you just need to locate the already-existing git-completion.bash file and source it in your .bashrc. Check the following directories:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core
Failing that, git itself might be able to help you out. When I run git config as follows, git reports a setting which comes from a gitconfig file located in the same directory as my git-completion.bash:
$ git config --show-origin --list
...
file:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig credential.helper=osxkeychain
...
or you can always brute-force search your machine and grab some coffee:
$ find / -type f -name git-completion.bash 2>/dev/null
Thus, I have the following insertion for my ~/.bashrc:
# Git shell completion and prompt string on macOS
_git_dir="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core"
if [ -f "${_git_dir}/git-completion.bash" ]; then
source "${_git_dir}/git-completion.bash"
fi
if [ -f "${_git_dir}/git-prompt.sh" ]; then
source "${_git_dir}/git-prompt.sh"
fi
unset _git_dir
Note that this sources the git prompt-string script as well, since it resides in the same directory.
(Tested in macOS Catalina)
May be helpful for someone:--
After downloading the .git-completion.bash from the following link,
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash
and trying to use __git_ps1 function, I was getting error as--
-bash: __git_ps1: command not found
Apparently we need to download scripts separately from master to make this command work, as __git_ps1 is defined in git-prompt.sh . So similar to downloading .git-completion.bash , get the git-prompt.sh:
curl -L https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh > ~/.bash_git
and then add the following in your .bash_profile
source ~/.bash_git
if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
. ~/.git-completion.bash
export PS1='\W$(__git_ps1 "[%s]")>'
fi
source ~/.bash.git will execute the downloaded file and
export PS1='\W$(__git_ps1 "[%s]") command will append the checkout out branch name after the current working directory(if its a git repository).
So it will look like:-
dir_Name[branch_name] where dir_Name is the working directory name and branch_name will be the name of the branch you are currently working on.
Please note -- __git_ps1 is case sensitive.
Arch Linux
Source /usr/share/git/completion/git-completion.bash in one of the bash startup files.
For example:
# ~/.bashrc
source /usr/share/git/completion/git-completion.bash
You may be able to find the script in other locations like /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git but these scripts did not work for me.
Mac M1
For those that are using Mac M1 environment, I was able to install via homebrew:
brew install bash-completion
Then added to my ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (whatever you use):
[[ -r "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/bash-completion/1.3_3/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh" ]] && . "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/bash-completion/1.3_3/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh"
You may need to update the version number (1.3_3). You'll just need to look it up in that directory. I would love to know if there's a better way.
Windows
How it works for me finally on Windows 10 command line (cmd):
Install Clink
Copy git-autocomplete.lua file into C:\Users\<username>\AppData\local\clink directory
Restart Windows
Ubuntu
There is a beautiful answer here. Worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04
Windows
Git Bash is the tool to allow auto-completion. Not sure if this is a part of standard distribution so you can find this link also useful.
By the way, Git Bash allows to use Linux shell commands to work on windows, which is a great thing for people, who have experience in GNU/Linux environment.
On Ubuntu 22.04 just add this line at the end of .bashrc or .zshrc
source /etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt
On Github in the Git project, They provide a bash file to autocomplete git commands.
You should download it to home directory and you should force bash to run it. It is simply two steps and perfectly explained(step by step) in the following blog post.
code-worrier blog: autocomplete-git/
I have tested it on mac, it should work on other systems too. You can apply same approach to other operating systems.
Just put below in the .bashrc and relaunch the terminal. Navigate to Git repo to see the path in the prompt.
PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\u\[\033[0;36m\] # \[\033[0;36m\]\h \w\[\033[0;32m\]$(__git_ps1)\n\[\033[0;32m\]└─\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\] \$\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\] ▶\[\033[0m\] '
We are trying to run rbenv on El-Capitan 10.11.6. When we try to run rbenv command in the terminal we got the following error message:
command not found
We googled how to solve that issue and one possible solution is to add the "rbenv" to the system PATH, we followed the steps stated in this link. When we run the "$PATH" to check whether or not the rbenv path was added properly into the system PATH, we got the the same result:
command not found
The result of "$PATH" command is:
qwe-Mac-mini:~ amrbakri$ rbenv
-bash: rbenv: command not found
qwe-Mac-mini:~ asd$ echo $PATH
/Users/asd/.rbenv/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin
Can you please tell me how to add the path of rbenv properly? And what did I do wrong in the previous steps so that I can fix it.
rbenv isn't a normal command if you've installed it correctly:
$ type rbenv
rbenv is a function
. . .
According to Homebrew on Mac OS X:
You'll only ever have to run rbenv init once.
That's a bit misleading because the result of running the command is:
$ rbenv init
# Load rbenv automatically by appending
# the following to ~/.bash_profile:
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
So you need to manually add eval "$(rbenv init -)" to some file that bash will source on startup. For most people ~/.bash_profile is the right place.
I notice the commands you listed seem to be run from two different users: amrbakri and asd. Combined with the question's use of "we", I wonder if there might be a problem with the environment being set correctly for one user, but not the other. Can you try using just one user?
If you are running from a non-interactive shell (such as in a crontab), you might need to add eval "$(rbenv init -)" to the startup script.
I following the instructions about "bash" command, then do the "eval" operation.
I'm in MacOS 11.2.3, in your .bash_profile, add the two lines.
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"#this is the required step for my mac
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
refer: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv#homebrew-on-mac-os-x
When using OSX’s git, after I modify a file I can simply do git commit <tab>, and that’ll auto complete the file’s name to the one that was modified. However, if I install a newer version of git from homebrew and I use it, that feature no longer works (meaning I press <tab> and it just “asks” me what file I want to do it on, even including the ones that have no changes).
Can anyone shed some light as to why, and how to solve that? I’d prefer using homebrew’s git, since it’s more up-to-date.
My shell is zsh, and Neither installing bash-completion or zsh-completions worked (even after following homebrew’s post-install instructions).
Also, after installing git with homebrew it says
Bash completion has been installed to: /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
zsh completion has been installed to: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
So shouldn’t I be able to use one of those?
You're looking for:
brew install git bash-completion
As warpc's comment states, you'll need to add the following to your ~/.bash_profile to get homebrew's bash-completion working:
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi
The above is mentioned in the caveats when you install the bash-completion formula.
Note: if you are using Bash v4 or later (via brew install bash) then you're going to want to use brew install bash-completion#2, to enable tab completion add the following to ~/.bash_profile as described in the caveats:
export BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR="/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d"
[[ -r "/usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh" ]] && . "/usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh"
The additional export is necessary for git, docker, youtube-dl, and other completions which may be included in the $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/ directory.
This get's git tab completion working on OSX without having to restart your terminal:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash
echo "source ~/.git-completion.bash" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
EDIT: this doesn't work in Catalina's default zsh shell. I changed the default shell back to bash and it works again. https://www.howtogeek.com/444596/how-to-change-the-default-shell-to-bash-in-macos-catalina/
In case anyone else makes my dumb mistake, try brew install git. I was using the git that comes with Xcode and didn't realize that I had never installed Homebrew's git to get the autocompletions.
for some reason I was missing the file at $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion so #Graham Perks' correct answer didn't work for me
It ended up the fix in my case was:
brew unlink bash-completion
brew link bash-completion
I solved the problem by figuring out that $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion returned Permission denied when executed. So after a simple:
chmod +x $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
Everything is now working fine. I'm wondering why Homebrew doesn't make the bash_completion file executable on installation, though.
For bash on macOS Catalina (3/30 update: Big Sur too), if you want to also use Bash 5 from homebrew, you need to make sure that your login shell is set to homebrew's bash, and not the default.
To check if you need to do this, run echo ${BASH_VERSION}. If you see a version starting with 3, you are not using Brew's bash for your login shell.
To change this,
Open System Preferences->Users and Groups.
Right click your user and select "Advanced Options". You may need to unlock this with your password by clicking the lock in the bottom left.
Set the login shell field to the location of your brew's bash, which you can usually find by running which bash in a terminal after you install brew's bash. Mine was /usr/local/bin/bash.
Restart your terminal, and follow the instructions in this excellent answer
Found a working solution. It's very recent (authored 16 hours ago, and committed 2 hours ago), and it comes directly from homebrew.
brew install git --without-completions
Just tried it, and it finally works as intended.
I had the same issue and even found this post this morning. I fixed the issue by updating brew with brew update and then reinstalling git with brew reinstall git.
I was then notified of another file that is blocking the homebrew linking process, in my case it was /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/git-completion.bash. Removing the file and running brew link git solved the issue. Guessing it was just a bad recipe version we stumbled upon.
If you have $BASH_VERSION < 4.1, eg 3.2.57(1)-release then go ahead with:
brew install bash-completion
# In ~/.bash_profile :
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi
However if you've brew install bash to get version 4.4.12(1)-release
you can use the better and more complete completions in:
brew install bash-completion#2
# In ~/.bash_profile:
[ -f "$(brew --prefix)/share/bash-completion/bash_completion" ] \
&& . "$(brew --prefix)/share/bash-completion/bash_completion"
Note that some packages (brew, docker, tmux) will still put some completions into $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/ so you might add:
for completion in "$(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/"*
do
. $completion
done
Finally you should be able to add the git completion script if for some reason the way you installed git did not add it to either of those:
[[ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/git \
|| -f $(brew --prefix)/share/bash-completion/completions/git ]] \
|| curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash \
-o $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/git
You can get and add it with the above.
Step 1: Download auto completion script:
cd ~
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
Step 2: Update .bash_profile and .bashrc
echo "source ~/git-completion.bash" >> .bash_profile
Via https://www.anintegratedworld.com/git-tab-autocomplete-on-osx-10-11-el-capitan/
If above does not work, try https://github.com/bobthecow/git-flow-completion/wiki/Install-Bash-git-completion
In 2019, using Bash v5, you do not need to explicitly source the git bash completion script in your .bash_profile or .bashrc
Ensure you have the following two lines in your .bashrc
export BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR="/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d"
[[ -r "/usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh" ]] && . "/usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh"
Download the git bash completion script (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash) and save it to /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ as git
That's it! Bash will automatically pick up the git completion file and enable completion.
Side Note: I recommend putting all these changes in .bashrc as this ensures that when you drop into an interactive shell (ie. from pipenv shell), completions will get loaded correctly as bash will source .bashrc and NOT .bash_profile.
For me , I had to put
source $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
into .bashrc (not .bash_profile) to get this to work.
".bash_profile is executed for login shells, while .bashrc is executed
for interactive non-login shells" -- from What is the difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc? It appears to me that MacOS Sierra doesn't execute .bash_profile when opening a new terminal window, only .bashrc.
I wouldn't put it in _bash_profile, because then I'd have to reboot/logout for updates to take effect.
This worked for me in Mojave (OSX 10.14.1):
brew install bash-completion
Then add the following line to your ~/.bash_profile:
[ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion ] && . /usr/local/etc/bash_completion
It may have something to do with libedit being used instead of readline in Lion.
Try installing readline before git.
brew install readline
For those who already have brew bash-completion installed. I did not have the git completion script installed and could not find any tap for that.
So I added it manually:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/git
Note that you have to rename the file and remove the extension for it to work.
If you do not have completion or git installed, install it in the accepted answer.
brew install git bash-completion
If you used homebrew to install git, then probably there is no need to install anything to support git completion.
"git-completion.bash" file is somewhere (mine was here: /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash)
All you need to do is to find the file:
sudo find / -type f -name "git-completion.bash"
Then source its path in your .bash_profile.
For example I needed to add this line to my ~/.bash_profile:
source /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
Don't forget to source your ~/.bash_profile or reopen your terminal ;)
from:
how-enable-git-tab-completion-bash-mac-os-x
I know this is an old post, but you don't really need to install any additional packages.
Homebrew is informing you that there is a directory with all the stuff you need.
You can simply add the following line to your .bash_profile if you are using Bash:
source /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash
If nothing works, it could be because you have an older version of bash and bash completion script is not getting sourced by the /usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh script. You can test this by adding a simple echo inside the conditionals in file /usr/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh:
10 if shopt -q progcomp && [ -r /usr/local/Cellar/bash-completion#2/2.11/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
11 # Source completion code.
echo "doing bash completion or not"
12 . /usr/local/Cellar/bash-completion#2/2.11/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
And open a new terminal. If you don't see the echo message, then the conditionals do not evaluate to true. In my case it was because the bash version was old, the default from mac 3.2.blah.
I did install a newer bash from brew, but i forgot to chsh and that caused me a lot of headache. bash --version would return 5.1.8 but the enabled shell was still the old one :) To test the enabled bash you can do
for n in {0..5}
do
echo "BASH_VERSINFO[$n] = ${BASH_VERSINFO[$n]}"
done
The fix was to sudo chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash After which the completions worked.
After tearing my hair out over this one for ages, I discovered that when I had the hub command installed, the completions for the hub command were breaking the completions for git. I had to remove /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/hub.bash_completion.sh. This meant no completions for hub, but git completions now worked. I didn't debug why this was.
I had the following brew packages installed:
bash: 5.1.16
bash-completion#2: 2.11
git: 2.35.1
hub: 2.14.2
Enable Auto Completion of GIT commands on MAC-OS Mojave 10.14
I am a developer and use GIT from the command line all of the time. When I consider the development perspective, I used to execute a lot of commands using the command line for GIT operations. Most of the time it is very annoying that MAC OS doesn't have automatic support for the command completion which I partially support. as well as the command suggestions, which means what are the commands available for typed characters. So it is very troublesome to type very long command and mostly repetitive task as typo going wrong. :(
Tab completion would certainly be faster and easier. Unfortunately, the default installation of git on some Mac computers doesn't have tab completion enabled.
So that I was searching for a fix for the problem and there are several solutions found from the web search such as StackOverflow, GitHub as well as from the medium. Unfortunately, those solutions did not work for me and got frustrated with trying different solutions so many times.
I was searching deeply and trying out different solutions and fortunately, it is an easy fix. Below are the steps I have collected from several posts and finally it worked as expected. So I hope to share with others who have this problem like me.
f you go to the web search and you can find many solutions which mentioned the git completion bash file. Even GitHub guide as well. But I suggest you check first if the git-completion.bash file is already in your MAC computer with the git-core or something else which came from installation. you can use below command.
sudo find / -type f -name "git-completion.bash"
you will get below results. (may have some difference according to the content)
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core/git-completion.bash
/Users/Dilanka/git-completion.bash
/Users/Dilanka/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/gitfast/git-completion.bash
/Users/Dilanka/Downloads/git-completion.bash
I suggest you to pick which installed from git-core
If the git-completion.bash script doesn't exist on your machine, please retrieve it from the below provided above and save it to your local machine in a new file called git-completion.bash in the /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ directory.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-Basics-Tips-and-Tricks
If you use the Bash shell, Git comes with a nice auto-completion script you can enable. Download it directly from the Git source code at
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
If the git-completion.bash script exists on your machine, but is not in the /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ directory, you should create that directory and copy the file into it. Below command will do the job:
sudo mkdir /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d
sudo cp /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core/git-completion.bash /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash
After the completion of above. The git-completion.bash script should exist on your local machine in the/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ directory.
Now you need to refresh your profile using below command. It will load your added bash file to the terminal context.
source ~/.bash_profile
Great!!! you have done it. Just start the terminal window and try it. Just type "git sta" it will show suggestions as below:
git sta
stage stash status
git chec<TAB> will show git checkout
see my GitHub post here:
https://github.com/DIL8654/Enable-Auto-Completion-of-GIT-commads-on-MAC-OS-Mojave
See my Medium post here:
https://medium.com/#dilanka85/enable-auto-completion-of-git-commands-on-mac-os-mojave-10-14