Shell Completion

yq shell-completion --variation=zsh

Prints to StdOut a shell completion script for zsh shell.

Bash (default)

yq shell-completion

To configure your bash shell to load completions for each session add to your bashrc

# ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile
. <(yq shell-completion)

zsh

yq shell-completion --variation=zsh

The generated completion script should be put somewhere in your $fpath named _yq

fish

yq shell-completion --variation=fish

Save the output to a '.fish' file and add it to your completions directory.

PowerShell

yq shell-completion --variation=powershell

Users need PowerShell version 5.0 or above, which comes with Windows 10 and can be downloaded separately for Windows 7 or 8.1. They can then write the completions to a file and source this file from their PowerShell profile, which is referenced by the $Profile environment variable.