diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7eb1975..132549d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ version = "3.6.0"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "clap",
+ "clap_complete",
  "colored",
  "libc",
  "mimalloc",
@@ -124,6 +125,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "textwrap",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "clap_complete"
+version = "3.2.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e4179da71abd56c26b54dd0c248cc081c1f43b0a1a7e8448e28e57a29baa993d"
+dependencies = [
+ "clap",
+ "clap_lex",
+ "is_executable",
+ "os_str_bytes",
+ "pathdiff",
+ "shlex",
+ "unicode-xid",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "clap_derive"
 version = "3.2.17"
@@ -271,6 +287,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "is_executable"
+version = "1.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fa9acdc6d67b75e626ad644734e8bc6df893d9cd2a834129065d3dd6158ea9c8"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.3"
@@ -437,6 +462,12 @@ version = "6.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9ff7415e9ae3fff1225851df9e0d9e4e5479f947619774677a63572e55e80eff"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pathdiff"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8835116a5c179084a830efb3adc117ab007512b535bc1a21c991d3b32a6b44dd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "percent-encoding"
 version = "2.1.0"
@@ -620,6 +651,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "shlex"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "43b2853a4d09f215c24cc5489c992ce46052d359b5109343cbafbf26bc62f8a3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "smawk"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -795,6 +832,12 @@ version = "0.1.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3ed742d4ea2bd1176e236172c8429aaf54486e7ac098db29ffe6529e0ce50973"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-xid"
+version = "0.2.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "957e51f3646910546462e67d5f7599b9e4fb8acdd304b087a6494730f9eebf04"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ureq"
 version = "2.5.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 960b01f..9a05059 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ codegen-units = 1
 [dependencies]
 mimalloc = { version = "0.1.29", default-features = false }
 clap = { version = "3.2.8", features = [ "derive", "wrap_help" ] }
+clap_complete = { version = "3.2.4", features = [ "unstable-dynamic" ] }
 regex = { version = "1.5.6", default-features = false, features = [ "std", "unicode-perl" ] }
 colored = "2.0.0"
 ureq = { version = "2.4.0", default-features = false, features = [ "native-tls", "json" ] }
diff --git a/src/args.rs b/src/args.rs
index 4e2ec66..f8a46f5 100644
--- a/src/args.rs
+++ b/src/args.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #![allow(clippy::module_name_repetitions)]
 
-use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
+use clap::{Parser, Subcommand, ValueHint};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Parser)]
-#[clap(name = "Amethyst", version = env ! ("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), about = env ! ("CARGO_PKG_DESCRIPTION"), infer_subcommands = true)]
+#[clap(bin_name = "ame", name = "Amethyst", version = env ! ("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), about = env ! ("CARGO_PKG_DESCRIPTION"), infer_subcommands = true)]
 pub struct Args {
     #[clap(subcommand)]
     pub subcommand: Option<Operation>,
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pub struct Args {
     pub sudoloop: bool,
 
     /// Sets a custom AUR clone and build directory for the specified operation
-    #[clap(long, short, global = true)]
+    #[clap(long, short, global = true, value_hint = ValueHint::DirPath)]
     pub cachedir: Option<String>,
 }
 
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ pub enum Operation {
     #[clap(name = "upgrade", visible_aliases = & ["-Syu"])]
     Upgrade(UpgradeArgs),
 
+    /// Generates shell completions for supported shells (bash, zsh, fish, elvish, pwsh)
+    #[clap(name = "gencomp", visible_aliases = & ["-g"])]
+    GenComp(GenCompArgs),
+
     /// Removes all orphaned packages
     #[clap(name = "clean", visible_aliases = & ["-Sc"])]
     Clean,
@@ -131,3 +135,10 @@ pub struct UpgradeArgs {
     #[clap(long, short)]
     pub aur: bool,
 }
+
+#[derive(Default, Debug, Clone, Parser)]
+pub struct GenCompArgs {
+    /// The shell to generate completions for
+    #[clap(required = true)]
+    pub shell: String,
+}
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index b1a08ed..4659e03 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@ use internal::commands::ShellCommand;
 use internal::error::SilentUnwrap;
 use std::fs;
 use std::path::Path;
+use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use crate::args::{
-    InfoArgs, InstallArgs, Operation, QueryArgs, RemoveArgs, SearchArgs, UpgradeArgs,
+    GenCompArgs, InfoArgs, InstallArgs, Operation, QueryArgs, RemoveArgs, SearchArgs, UpgradeArgs,
 };
 use crate::internal::exit_code::AppExitCode;
 use crate::internal::{detect, init, sort, start_sudoloop, structs::Options};
 
+use clap_complete::{Generator, Shell};
+
 #[global_allocator]
 static GLOBAL: mimalloc::MiMalloc = mimalloc::MiMalloc;
 
@@ -86,6 +89,10 @@ fn main() {
             info!("Running pacdiff");
             detect();
         }
+        Operation::GenComp(gencomp_args) => {
+            info!("Generating shell completions for {}. Please pipe `stderr` to a file to get completions as a file, e.g. `ame gencomp fish 2> file.fish`", gencomp_args.shell);
+            cmd_gencomp(&gencomp_args);
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -205,3 +212,14 @@ fn cmd_upgrade(args: UpgradeArgs, options: Options, cachedir: &str) {
     info!("Performing system upgrade");
     operations::upgrade(options, args, cachedir);
 }
+
+fn cmd_gencomp(args: &GenCompArgs) {
+    let shell: Shell = Shell::from_str(&args.shell).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
+        crash!(AppExitCode::Other, "Invalid shell: {}", e);
+    });
+
+    shell.generate(
+        &<args::Args as clap::CommandFactory>::command(),
+        &mut std::io::stderr(),
+    );
+}