Update bash completion docs
When I try to run the proposed script in my `~/.bashrc` file I get this output: ``` -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: have: command not found -bash: [: =: unary operator expected # ... ``` It goes on for quite some time and does not give me bash completion. When I execute `source "$(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion"` it works and I get bash completion. This script also emits a helpful error message letting people know if bash completion was not installed already. I'll also add that the bash completion script takes a fairly long amount of time. I've seen between one quarter and a half of a second to execute it: ``` $ time source "$(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion" real 0m0.254s ``` Though that's unrelated to this PR, making a note of it.
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You must configure your shell to enable the completion support. This is because the Homebrew-managed completions are stored under `HOMEBREW_PREFIX`, which your system shell may not be aware of, and because it is difficult to automatically configure `bash` and `zsh` completions in a robust manner, so the Homebrew installer cannot do it for you.
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## Configuring Completions in `bash`
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To make Homebrew's completions available in `bash`, you must source the definitions as part of your shell startup. Add the following to your `~/.bashrc` file:
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```sh
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if type brew 2&>/dev/null; then
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for completion_file in $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/*; do
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source "$completion_file"
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done
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source "$(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion"
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else
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echo "run: brew install git bash-completion"
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fi
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```
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