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title: "Auto Completion in Bash for Maven"
description: "Step 1 : Check if bashcompletion in enabled in your .bashrc. Step 2 : Add the file attached to /etc/bashcompletion.d/m2."
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# Auto Completion in Bash for Maven

> Step 1 : Check if bashcompletion in enabled in your .bashrc. Step 2 : Add the file attached to /etc/bashcompletion.d/m2.

**Step 1** : Check if bash_completion in enabled in your .bashrc. **Step 2** : Add the file attached to /etc/bash_completion.d/m2. Step 3 : Enjoy auto-completion for Maven.

_The Code Lines :**complete -F _m2_complete -o filenames mvn_** Indicates to apply m2_complete for command following mvn **compgen** Generate possible completion matches for word according to the options._