kubectl: Cannot autocomplete kubectl bash aliases

I don’t know if this is the best/right solution, but I made k autocomplete by doing source <(kubectl completion bash | sed 's/kubectl/k/g').

https://github.com/cykerway/complete-alias is kind of amazing. With this, there is no need to modify the original completion functions, and it works with lazily-loaded completions.

The official instructions are not working for me with bash 4.3 and 4.4. After adding the commands below, completing with kubectl works fine, but k doesn’t. If I type ‘k’, ‘space’ and then press tab is expands to ‘k kubectl’ and then if I press tab again it starts completing kubectl commands. Do the official approach only work with bash 5.x?

This does not work, k completes to k kubectl:

source <(kubectl completion bash)
alias k=kubectl
complete -F __start_kubectl k

Using complete_alias does work:

source <(kubectl completion bash)
alias k=kubectl
complete -F _complete_alias k

And this workaround of duplicating the completions does also work:

source <(kubectl completion bash)
source <(kubectl completion bash | sed 's/kubectl/k/g')

I followed official guide and the issue is gone.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/#enabling-shell-autocompletion

What I was missing is

echo 'complete -F __start_kubectl k' >>~/.bashrc

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I don’t know if this is the best/right solution, but I made k autocomplete by doing source <(kubectl completion bash | sed 's/kubectl/k/g').

I added this into ~/.bash_profile

@weibeld Yes. Where _complete_alias is __start_kubectl

Can someone help to update the vendor to pick up the fix in cobra?