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---
date: 2020-03-03
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
-e, --environment string build environment
--ignoreVendor ignores any _vendor directory
--log enable Logging
--logFile string log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
--quiet build in quiet mode
-s, --source string filesystem path to read files relative from
--themesDir string filesystem path to themes directory
-v, --verbose verbose output
--verboseLog verbose logging
```
### SEE ALSO
* [hugo gen](/commands/hugo_gen/) - A collection of several useful generators.
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