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+// Package self
+// a program that complete itself
+package main
+
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/posener/complete"
+)
+
+func main() {
+
+	// add a variable to the program
+	var name string
+	flag.StringVar(&name, "name", "", "Give your name")
+
+	// create the complete command
+	cmp := complete.New(
+		"self",
+		complete.Command{Flags: complete.Flags{"name": complete.PredictAnything}},
+	)
+
+	// AddFlags adds the completion flags to the program flags,
+	// in case of using non-default flag set, it is possible to pass
+	// it as an argument.
+	// it is possible to set custom flags name
+	// so when one will type 'self -h', he will see '-complete' to install the
+	// completion and -uncomplete to uninstall it.
+	cmp.AddFlags(nil, "complete", "uncomplete")
+
+	// parse the flags - both the program's flags and the completion flags
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	// run the completion, in case that the completion was invoked
+	// and ran as a completion script or handled a flag that passed
+	// as argument, the Run method will return true,
+	// in that case, our program have nothing to do and should return.
+	if cmp.Run() {
+		return
+	}
+
+	// if the completion did not do anything, we can run our program logic here.
+	if name == "" {
+		fmt.Println("Your name is missing")
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println("Hi,", name)
+}