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Overview

The dotnet driver supports tab completion. Below are instructions to enable it in PowerShell and Bash.

PowerShell

Edit the profile at $PROFILE:

# PowerShell parameter completion shim for the dotnet CLI
Register-ArgumentCompleter -Native -CommandName dotnet -ScriptBlock {
    param($commandName, $wordToComplete, $cursorPosition)
        dotnet complete --position $cursorPosition "$wordToComplete" | 
    ForEach-Object {
        [System.Management.Automation.CompletionResult]::new($_, $_, 'ParameterValue', $_)
    }
}

Bash

# bash parameter completion for the dotnet CLI
function _dotnet_bash_complete()
{
    local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}" IFS=$'\n' # On Windows you may need to use use IFS=$'\r\n'
    local candidates
    
    read -d '' -ra candidates < <(dotnet complete --position "${COMP_POINT}" "${COMP_LINE}" 2>/dev/null)
    read -d '' -ra COMPREPLY < <(compgen -W "${candidates[*]:-}" -- "$cur")
}

complete -f -F _dotnet_bash_complete dotnet