New command "bazel completion (bash|zsh|fish)"
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Description
### Description of the feature request:
Bazel should support printable completions like [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/generated/kubectl_completion/), [helm](https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_completion/), [gh-cli](https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_completion), [rustup](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/index.html#enable-tab-completion-for-bash-fish-zsh-or-powershell)... I can keep going.
The main cause of delay of bazelbuild/bazelisk#29 although it was the most upvoted issue in bazelisk was that there was no trivial way to actually get it. I believe this shouldn't be the work of bazelisk, but rather a command in bazel itself.
Even if not for the `bazelisk` use case, providing completions directly in the subcommand itself is much more useful, coherent and simpler.
### Which category does this issue belong to?
CLI
### What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
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### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
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### What is the output of `bazel info release`?
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### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.
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### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD` ?
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### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
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### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
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Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or implementation entry point. First locate Bazel's CLI command definitions and determine how a command can print completions for bash, zsh, and fish; done means the new command produces usable output for all three shells.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100