# Configuring Autocompletion for `mesheryctl`
> Bash, Zsh, Oh My Zsh, and fish autocompletion for `mesheryctl` commands.
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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)
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`mesheryctl completion` prints a completion script for bash, zsh, or fish. Load that script in your shell so that pressing Tab completes `mesheryctl` commands and flags.
## Bash
Check your bash version with `bash --version`, then use the matching commands.
### Linux, bash 4.0 or later
Load completion in the current shell:
```bash
source <(mesheryctl completion bash)
```
To load it in every new shell, add that line to `~/.bashrc`.
### Linux, bash 3.2 or earlier
```bash
source /dev/stdin <<< "$(mesheryctl completion bash)"
```
### macOS
macOS ships bash 3.2. Install the `bash-completion` package that matches your bash version with Homebrew, then write the script to its completion directory:
```bash
# bash 3.2: needs bash-completion 1.3 or later
brew install bash-completion
# bash 4.2 or later: use bash-completion@2 instead
# brew install bash-completion@2
mesheryctl completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/mesheryctl
```
Follow the "Caveats" that `brew install` prints to source `bash_completion` from your `~/.bash_profile`.
## Zsh
1. If completion is not already turned on in zsh, turn it on in the current shell and in every new one:
```bash
autoload -U compinit; compinit
echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
```
2. Load `mesheryctl` completion in the current shell:
```bash
source <(mesheryctl completion zsh)
```
3. Start a new shell for the change to take effect.
### Zsh on macOS and Oh My Zsh
Write the script into a completion directory of your own and add that directory to your `fpath`, so that zsh loads it in every session:
```bash
mkdir -p ~/.zsh/completions
mesheryctl completion zsh > ~/.zsh/completions/_mesheryctl
echo 'fpath=(~/.zsh/completions $fpath)' >> ~/.zshrc
```
The `fpath` line must come before `compinit` in `~/.zshrc`. If you use Oh My Zsh, add it before the line that sources `oh-my-zsh.sh`. Then start a new shell.
## Fish
Load completion in the current shell:
```bash
mesheryctl completion fish | source
```
To load it in every session, write it to fish's completions directory once:
```bash
mesheryctl completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/mesheryctl.fish
```
For every `mesheryctl` command and flag, see the [`mesheryctl` command reference](/reference/mesheryctl/).