Dfx 0.20.0 is promoted

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dfx 0.20.0 is promoted! You can read the release notes here.

Install dfx 0.20.0 with dfxvm:

dfxvm install 0.20.0
dfxvm default 0.20.0

This release brings several fixes and enhancements. Most notably, dfx now ships with a completion command, which generates shell completion scripts for bash , elvish , fish , zsh , or PowerShell.

Essentially, you can get “autocompletion” of dfx commands with a few extra steps. Example steps (strictly for zsh) below:

  1. Open ~/.zshrc for editing, e.g.
vi ~/.zshrc
  1. Paste the commands below to the bottom of .zshrc
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

  1. Restart your terminal

  2. Run the following:

source <(dfx completion zsh)
  1. type dfx then tab and you should see autocomplete options populate

Please try it out and let us know if you run into any issues.

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That’s the ultimate efficiency booster, auto completion was much needed

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What base path is used for commands now? This is what we had before…

            "build": "bash -c './backend/scripts/app/build.sh test'",

and that doesn’t work any more.

Is there a way to specify the directory where dfx.json lives? I can’t really use ~ because everybody stores the repo in different places.

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I’m not sure that dfx applies a base path to any commands. dfx.json is project-specific – dfx only reads that file in the context of a project directory. dfx itself lives somewhere like /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/org.dfinity.dfx/bin/dfx (you can see by running which dfx)

where does that script run? in a github action?