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:robot: The free, Open Source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others. Self-hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more. Features: Generate Text, MCP, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P and decentralized inference

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title = "Shell Completion"
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LocalAI provides shell completion support for **bash**, **zsh**, and **fish** shells. Once installed, tab completion works for all CLI commands, subcommands, and flags.
## Generating Completion Scripts
Use the `completion` subcommand to generate a completion script for your shell:
```bash
local-ai completion bash
local-ai completion zsh
local-ai completion fish
```
## Installation
### Bash
Add the following to your `~/.bashrc`:
```bash
source <(local-ai completion bash)
```
Or install it system-wide:
```bash
local-ai completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/local-ai
```
### Zsh
Add the following to your `~/.zshrc`:
```zsh
source <(local-ai completion zsh)
```
Or install it to a completions directory:
```zsh
local-ai completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_local-ai"
```
If shell completions are not already enabled in your zsh environment, add the following to the beginning of your `~/.zshrc`:
```zsh
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
```
### Fish
```fish
local-ai completion fish | source
```
Or install it permanently:
```fish
local-ai completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/local-ai.fish
```
## Usage
After installation, restart your shell or source your shell configuration file. Then type `local-ai` followed by a tab to see available commands:
```
$ local-ai <TAB>
run backends completion explorer models
federated sound-generation transcript tts util
```
Tab completion also works for subcommands and flags:
```
$ local-ai models <TAB>
install list
$ local-ai run --<TAB>
--address --backends-path --context-size --debug ...
```