---
name: "dh_bash-completion"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bash-completion"
version: "1:2.16.0-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dh_bash-completion"
---

# dh\_bash-completion(1)

install bash completions for package

## NAME

dh\_bash-completion - install bash completions for package

## SYNOPSIS

**dh\_bash-completion** \[*debhelper options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

dh\_bash-completion is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing completions for bash, usable installing the "bash-completion" package.

In order to use it, you need to pass "--with bash-completion" to debhelper and Build-depend on bash-completion.

If a file named debian/package.bash-completion exists, then different actions are performed, depending on its format.

It can be a proper completion snippet, and in that case it would be installed in the completion directory, and no other actions would be performed.

It can also be a list of files, with an optionally specified name to call the completion snippet after. The file format is as follows:

```
  my/path/to/foo-completion       # this would be installed as "foo-completion"
  my/path/to/bar-completion  baz  # this would be installed as "baz"
```

## SEE ALSO

[**debhelper**(1)](/debhelper/1.md)

This program is a part of bash-completion.

[**bash**(1)](/bash/1.md)

## AUTHOR

David Paleino \<d.paleino@gmail.com\>