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Enable Autocomplete for the MongoDB CLI
You can enable autocomplete for MongoDB CLI commands to see available commands and their syntax directly in your shell.
Enable Autocomplete
Use Tab
to Autocomplete Commands
Once you have autocomplete configured, you can autocomplete commands by
typing mongocli
in your shell and pressing the Tab
key. Press
Tab
multiple times to cycle through available autocompletion
options.
You can press Tab
at any stage of writing your command to see
available autocomplete options.
Examples
When you type mongocli
in your shell and press Tab
, the
output resembles the following:
atlas -- Atlas operations. cloud-manager -- Cloud Manager operations. completion -- Generate shell completion scripts config -- Configure a profile to store access settings for your MongoDB deployment. help -- Help about any command iam -- Organization and projects operations. ops-manager -- Ops Manager operations.
If you type a specific property such as atlas
as part of your
command, you can see autocompletion options for your selected
property.
For example, when you type mongocli atlas
in your shell and press
Tab
, the output resembles the following:
accessLists -- Manage the IP access list for your project. accessLogs -- Manage the access logs of a cluster. alerts -- Manage alerts for your project. backups -- Manage backups for your project. clusters -- Manage clusters for your project. dbusers -- Manage database users for your project. events -- Manage events for your project. logs -- Download host logs for your project. metrics -- Get measurements on the state of the MongoDB process. processes -- Manage MongoDB processes for your project.