diff --git a/src/scripts/vppctl_completion b/src/scripts/vppctl_completion
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+#Copyright 2016 Intel 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.
+
+_vppctl()
+{
+    local cur prev num opts
+    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -f ${cur}) )
+    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+    prev="${COMP_WORDS[@]:1}"
+    num="$((${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1))"
+
+    VPP_CMD_LIST="$(cat /usr/share/vpp/clicmd.itemlist)"
+
+    opts="$(awk -v prev="^$prev" -v num=$num '{if($0 ~ prev) print $num}' <<< "${VPP_CMD_LIST}")"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
+
+}
+complete -F _vppctl vppctl