-D invalid option on bash 4.2 on OSX about argcomplete HOT 8 CLOSED

If someone ends up here like I did, this fixes the issue:

sudo bash -c 'echo /usr/local/bin/bash >> /etc/shells'
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

As mentioned here: mathiasbynens/dotfiles#544 (comment)

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The version of bash that you're using as the login shell is not the version that is available on your command line. You can find out the version of the running copy of bash with echo $BASH_VERSION, and the available copy using type bash.

To use the newer copy of bash, add it as an available shell into /etc/shells and use chsh, or customize your Terminal/iTerm2 settings.

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@peterbe did this resolve your issue?

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Sorry. Haven't had time to process your response. Vacation coming up meaning rushing to finish things.

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Actually I have the same problem. I am on OSX Mavericks 10.9.3 which is quite current and after installing argcomplete into the directory I use for completions I am now getting the error

Last login: Sat Jun 28 11:27:17 on ttys005
-bash: complete: -D: invalid option
complete: usage: complete [-abcdefgjksuv] [-pr] [-o option] [-A action]
   [-G globpat] [-W wordlist] [-P prefix] [-S suffix] [-X filterpat] [-F function]
   [-C command] [name ...]

My version of bash is as follows:

[bolt:~] ⌘ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[bolt:~] ⌘ echo $BASH_VERSION
3.2.51(1)-release
[bolt:~] ⌘ type bash
bash is hashed (/bin/bash)
[bolt:~] ⌘ which bash
/bin/bash

I have XCode 5.1.1 and its developer tools installed. (This is the latest public version at the time of this reporting). Is there anything else I should check?

As it currently stands this doesn't appear to work on OSX unless I am doing something wrong... Thanks!

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Hi @jasonfharris. As the documentation states, you will need to use bash 4.2+ in order to use the global completion feature. As your printout indicates (and I can confirm on Mavericks), you have version 3.2.51.

You can install a newer bash using homebrew or similar, and either run it manually or select it as your shell (via chsh) or as your terminal's startup shell.

Without bash 4.2, the package still works when registering individual files, it's only global completion that doesn't work.

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Thanks for getting back to me. Can I make a plea for some documentation to cover this being front and centre in the install section? It is kind of not so nice that OSX users on an up to date system can't basically have an off the shelf working version... Ie for myself, I thought I had obviously done something wrong in my configuration or there was something peculiar with my install. It was only towards the end that I realised that maybe things just generally don't work for off the shelf Mavericks without futzing around with it, actually having to read the documentation etc.

Of course like most people my steps were I just skimmed forward, found the install step and ran those two steps. Found that there was an error with putting the script into the completions directory (Maybe a problem only for me or maybe a problem on all OSX systems?), sighed... then went and fixed that problem by specifying a dest directory, then had the -D problem, then started googling around for that quickly and then looking in the issues. Regrettably I didn't find this a smooth process...

In the end I had to find this out via looking into the github issues. MacOSX is likely not an insignificant chunk of the platforms python developers... So a plea for others that come after me to document this a bit more...

But in any case thank you for putting the effort into what otherwise looks like a very useful tools!

Thanks!

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This seems to still be the top result for the error -bash: complete: -D: invalid option in 2023, so adding a slight adaptation of @lrepolho solution that works with latest Homebrew installed Bash:

sudo bash -c 'echo /opt/homebrew/bin/bash >> /etc/shells'
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash

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