gohugoio-hugo/docs/content/en/commands/hugo_gen_autocomplete.md

---
date: 2018-12-12
title: "hugo gen autocomplete"
slug: hugo_gen_autocomplete
url: /commands/hugo_gen_autocomplete/
---
## hugo gen autocomplete

Generate shell autocompletion script for Hugo

### Synopsis

Generates a shell autocompletion script for Hugo.

NOTE: The current version supports Bash only.
      This should work for *nix systems with Bash installed.

By default, the file is written directly to /etc/bash_completion.d
for convenience, and the command may need superuser rights, e.g.:

	$ sudo hugo gen autocomplete

Add `--completionfile=/path/to/file` flag to set alternative
file-path and name.

Logout and in again to reload the completion scripts,
or just source them in directly:

	$ . /etc/bash_completion

```
hugo gen autocomplete [flags]
```

### Options

```
      --completionfile string   autocompletion file (default "/etc/bash_completion.d/hugo.sh")
  -h, --help                    help for autocomplete
      --type string             autocompletion type (currently only bash supported) (default "bash")
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --config string      config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
      --configDir string   config dir (default "config")
      --debug              debug output
      --log                enable Logging
      --logFile string     log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
      --quiet              build in quiet mode
  -v, --verbose            verbose output
      --verboseLog         verbose logging
```

### SEE ALSO

* [hugo gen](/commands/hugo_gen/)	 - A collection of several useful generators.

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