Add autocompletion support for bash/zsh

[rangelovkiril]

Related command
az completion

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When installing azure-cli on Arch-based distributions via AUR, the package installs to /opt/azure-cli and does not include a shell completion script. There is no file in /etc/bash_completion.d/ or /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/, and az completion is not a recognized subcommand. This means users get no tab-completion out of the box for zsh (or bash).

Describe the solution you'd like
Ship a completion script with the AUR/Arch package, or provide a built-in az completion subcommand (similar to kubectl completion zsh, docker completion zsh, etc.) that outputs a working completion script for common shells.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Using register-python-argcomplete az with the python-argcomplete package — this works but requires an extra dependency and manual .zshrc configuration.
• Manually sourcing the bash completion file from other distribution paths — not applicable since no such file is included in the Arch package.

Additional context

• OS: CachyOS (Arch-based)
• Shell: zsh
• Install path: /opt/azure-cli
• find / -name "az.completion" -o -name "azure-cli" only returns /usr/share/licenses/azure-cli and /opt/azure-cli — no completion files.

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[github-actions]

Here are some similar issues that might help you. Please check if they can solve your problem.

• No bash completion (or missing instructions) on Mac (Big Sur) #17828
• make completion as easy as azure-xplat-cli #630

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Possible solution (Extracted from existing issue, might be incorrect; please verify carefully)

Solution 1:

This could also be az completion bash/zsh then it can be used like source <(az completion bash/zsh)

Reference:

• make completion as easy as azure-xplat-cli #630 (comment)

Solution 2:

After much digging I have determined this should be the following for ZSH:

autoload bashcompinit && bashcompinit
source $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/az

Note that brew --prefix most likely corresponds to /opt/homebrew

Reference:

• No bash completion (or missing instructions) on Mac (Big Sur) #17828 (comment)

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