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Brian Kassouf 23089dafbc Add basic autocompletion (#3223)
* Add basic autocompletion

* Add autocomplete to some common commands

* Autocomplete the generate-root flags

* Add information about autocomplete to the docs
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---
layout: "docs"
page_title: "Commands (CLI)"
sidebar_current: "docs-commands"
description: |-
Vault can be controlled via a command-line interface. This page documents all the commands Vault accepts.
---
# Vault Commands (CLI)
Vault is controlled via a very easy to use command-line interface (CLI).
Vault is only a single command-line application: `vault`. This application
then takes a subcommand such as "read" or "write". The complete list of
subcommands is in the navigation to the left.
The Vault CLI is a well-behaved command line application. In erroneous cases,
a non-zero exit status will be returned. It also responds to `-h` and `--help`
as you'd most likely expect.
To view a list of the available commands at any time, just run Vault
with no arguments. To get help for any specific subcommand, run the subcommand
with the `-h` argument.
The help output is very comprehensive, so we defer you to that for documentation.
We've included some guides to the left of common interactions with the
CLI.
## Autocompletion
The `vault` command features opt-in subcommand autocompletion that you can
enable for your shell with `vault -autocomplete-install`. After doing so,
you can invoke a new shell and use the feature.
For example, assume a tab is typed at the end of each prompt line:
```
$ vault au
audit-disable audit-enable audit-list auth auth-disable auth-enable
$ vault s
seal server ssh status step-down
```