diff --git a/internal/bbsimctl/commands/completion.go b/internal/bbsimctl/commands/completion.go
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+++ b/internal/bbsimctl/commands/completion.go
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2019-present Ciena Corporation
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package commands
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/jessevdk/go-flags"
+	"github.com/opencord/bbsim/internal/bbsimctl/completion"
+)
+
+type BashOptions struct{}
+
+type CompletionOptions struct {
+	BashOptions `command:"bash"`
+}
+
+func RegisterCompletionCommands(parent *flags.Parser) {
+	parent.AddCommand("completion", "generate shell compleition", "Commands to generate shell completion information", &CompletionOptions{})
+}
+
+func (options *BashOptions) Execute(args []string) error {
+	fmt.Println(completion.Bash)
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/bbsimctl/completion/bash.go b/internal/bbsimctl/completion/bash.go
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2019-present Ciena Corporation
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package completion
+
+const Bash = `
+# Portions copyright 2019-present Open Networking Foundation
+# Original copyright 2019-present Ciena Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+_bbsimctl() {
+    # All arguments except the first one
+    args=("${COMP_WORDS[@]:1:$COMP_CWORD}")
+    # Only split on newlines
+    local IFS=$'\n'
+    # Call completion (note that the first element of COMP_WORDS is
+    # the executable itself)
+    COMPREPLY=($(GO_FLAGS_COMPLETION=1 ${COMP_WORDS[0]} "${args[@]}"))
+    return 0
+}
+complete -F _bbsimctl bbsimctl`