it's curious but bash-completion is with - and not _

devscripts/bash-completion.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import os
+from os.path import dirname as dirn
+import sys
+
+sys.path.append(dirn(dirn((os.path.abspath(__file__)))))
+import youtube_dl
+
+BASH_COMPLETION_FILE = "youtube-dl.bash-completion"
+BASH_COMPLETION_TEMPLATE = "devscripts/bash-completion.template"
+
+def build_completion(opt_parser):
+    opts_flag = []
+    for group in opt_parser.option_groups:
+        for option in group.option_list:
+            #for every long flag
+            opts_flag.append(option.get_opt_string())
+    with open(BASH_COMPLETION_TEMPLATE) as f:
+        template = f.read()
+    with open(BASH_COMPLETION_FILE, "w") as f:
+        #just using the special char
+        filled_template = template.replace("{{flags}}", " ".join(opts_flag))
+        f.write(filled_template)
+
+parser = youtube_dl.parseOpts()[0]
+build_completion(parser)