diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 764727d..f798044 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ completion::
     $ h5glance sample.h5 -
     Object path: sample.h5/  # try tapping tab
 
+Or run ``python -m h5glance.completer`` to install tab completion hooks for bash
+and zsh.
+
+### HTML interface
+
 The HTML interface lets you inspect HDF5 files in a Jupyter Notebook.
 `Demo.ipynb <https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/European-XFEL/h5glance/blob/master/Demo.ipynb>`_
 shows how to use it.
diff --git a/h5glance/completer.py b/h5glance/completer.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1af101
--- /dev/null
+++ b/h5glance/completer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+"""Shell integration to tab complete paths inside an HDF5 file"""
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+
+pjoin = os.path.join
+pkgdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+def install_hooks():
+    """Install hooks for bash & zsh to complete paths in files"""
+    data_home = os.environ.get('XDG_DATA_HOME', '') \
+                or os.path.expanduser('~/.local/share')
+
+    # Bash
+    if shutil.which('bash'):
+        src = pjoin(pkgdir, 'completion.bash')
+        dst_dir = pjoin(data_home, 'bash-completion/completions')
+        os.makedirs(dst_dir, exist_ok=True)
+        dst = pjoin(dst_dir, 'h5glance')
+        shutil.copy(src, dst)
+        print("Copied", dst)
+
+    # Zsh
+    if shutil.which('zsh'):
+        src = pjoin(pkgdir, 'completion.zsh')
+        dst_dir = pjoin(data_home, 'zsh-completions')
+        os.makedirs(dst_dir, exist_ok=True)
+        dst = pjoin(dst_dir, '_h5glance')
+        shutil.copy(src, dst)
+        print("Copied", dst)
+
+        stdout = subprocess.check_output(['zsh', '-i', '-c', 'echo $FPATH'])
+        if dst_dir not in stdout.decode('utf-8').split(':'):
+            with open(os.path.expanduser('~/.zshrc'), 'a') as f:
+                f.write('\nfpath=("{}" $fpath)\ncompinit\n'.format(dst_dir))
+            print("Added {} to fpath in ~/.zshrc".format(dst_dir))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    install_hooks()
diff --git a/h5glance/completion.bash b/h5glance/completion.bash
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cc05903
--- /dev/null
+++ b/h5glance/completion.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+_h5glance()
+{
+    local cur prev opts base
+    COMPREPLY=()
+    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
+
+    # Complete options
+    if [[ ${cur} = -* ]]; then
+      opts="-h --help --version --attrs"
+      COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
+      return 0
+    fi
+
+    # Complete paths inside file
+    if [[ -f ${prev} ]]; then
+      local grouppath=""
+      if [[ ${cur} =~ / ]]; then
+        # Hack: 'dirname a/b/' returns 'a'. The trailing x makes it 'a/b'.
+        grouppath=$(dirname "${cur}x")/
+      fi
+
+      # List entries in the group, add the group path and a / suffix for
+      # subgroups, and case-insensitively filter them against the text entered.
+      COMPREPLY=($(h5ls --simple "${prev}/${grouppath}" \
+                  | awk -v g="${grouppath}" \
+                      '{sfx=" "; if ($2 == "Group") sfx="/"; print g $1 sfx}' \
+                  | awk -v IGNORECASE=1 -v p="${cur}" \
+                      'p==substr($0,0,length(p))' \
+                 ) )
+      return 0
+    fi
+}
+
+complete -o default -o nospace -F _h5glance h5glance
diff --git a/h5glance/completion.zsh b/h5glance/completion.zsh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..394afbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/h5glance/completion.zsh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#compdef _h5glance h5glance
+
+function _h5glance {
+    local curcontext="$curcontext"
+    local context state state_descr line
+    typeset -A opt_args
+
+    _arguments -C \
+        "-h[Show help information]" \
+        "--help[Show help information]" \
+        "--version[Show version number]" \
+        "--attrs[Show attributes of groups]" \
+        ":HDF5 file:_files" \
+        ":path in file:->infile"
+
+    case "$state" in
+        infile)
+                declare -a matches
+                local grouppath=""
+                if [[ ${line[2]} =~ / ]]; then
+                  # Hack: 'dirname a/b/' returns 'a'. The trailing x makes it 'a/b'.
+                  grouppath=$(dirname "${line[2]}x")/
+                fi
+
+                # List entries in the group, add the group path and a / suffix for
+                # subgroups, and case-insensitively filter them against the text entered.
+                matches=($(h5ls --simple "${line[1]}/${grouppath}" \
+                          | awk -v g="${grouppath}" \
+                              '{s=""; if ($2 == "Group") s="/"; print g $1 s}' \
+                          | awk -v IGNORECASE=1 -v p="${line[2]}" \
+                              'p==substr($0,0,length(p))' ))
+
+                # Code below by Xavier Delaruelle, on StackOverflow.
+                # https://stackoverflow.com/a/53907053/434217
+                # Used under SO's default CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.
+                local suffix=' ';
+                # do not append space to word completed if it is a directory (ends with /)
+                for val in $matches; do
+                        if [ "${val: -1:1}" = '/' ]; then
+                            suffix=''
+                            break
+                        fi
+                done
+
+                # The -M match-spec argument allows case-insensitive matches
+                compadd -S "$suffix" -M 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' -a matches
+                ;;
+    esac
+}
diff --git a/h5glance/copypath.js b/h5glance/copypath.js
index 8f58160..38e1938 100644
--- a/h5glance/copypath.js
+++ b/h5glance/copypath.js
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
     }
 
     function enable_copylinks(parent) {
-        let links = parent.querySelectorAll(".h5glance-dataset-copylink")
+        let links = parent.querySelectorAll(".h5glance-dataset-copylink");
         links.forEach(function (link) {
             link.addEventListener("click", copy_event_handler);
         });