diff --git a/tools/bash_completion/arkmanager b/tools/bash_completion/arkmanager
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c0bc96f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bash_completion/arkmanager
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# a bash_completion for arkmanager with server names
+# ARK: survival evolved manager
+#
+# Original author:	AnEmortalKid 
+
+_arkmanager() 
+{
+    local cur prev opts home_instances etc_instances
+    COMPREPLY=()
+    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
+
+   # retrieve the ones in /etc/arkmanager/instances first
+   etc_instances=$(for f in `ls -1 /etc/arkmanager/instances/*.cfg`; do if [ -f "${f}" ]; then instancename="${f##*/}"; echo "@${instancename%.cfg}"; fi done)
+  
+   # check that ${HOME}/.config/arkmanager/instances exists
+   if [ -d "${HOME}/.config/arkmanager/instances/" ] ; then
+     # check that it also isn't empty if it exists
+     if [ "$(ls -A ${HOME}/.config/arkmanager/instances/)" ] ; then
+     home_instances=$(for f in `ls -1 ${HOME}/.config/arkmanager/instances/*.cfg`; do if [ -f "${f}" ]; then instancename="${f##*/}"; echo "@${instancename%.cfg}"; fi done)
+      fi
+   fi
+   
+   # append both results together for the completion
+   all_instances="@all ${etc_instances} ${home_instances}"
+   
+   if [[ ${cur} == @* ]] ; then
+        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${all_instances}" -- ${cur}) )
+        return 0
+    fi
+}
+complete -F _arkmanager arkmanager
+
diff --git a/tools/install.sh b/tools/install.sh
index eac2d60..9be9ce6 100755
--- a/tools/install.sh
+++ b/tools/install.sh
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ else
     # Copy example instance config
     cp instance.cfg.example "${INSTALL_ROOT}${INSTANCEDIR}/instance.cfg.example"
 
+    # Copy arkmanager bash_completion into /etc/bash_completion.d/
+    cp bash_completion/arkmanager "${INSTALL_ROOT}/etc/bash_completion.d/arkmanager"
+
     # Copy arkmanager.cfg inside linux configuation folder if it doesn't already exists
     mkdir -p "${INSTALL_ROOT}/etc/arkmanager"
     chown "$steamcmd_user" "${INSTALL_ROOT}/etc/arkmanager"
diff --git a/tools/uninstall.sh b/tools/uninstall.sh
index e4f20b5..0b7d096 100644
--- a/tools/uninstall.sh
+++ b/tools/uninstall.sh
@@ -35,3 +35,8 @@ if [ -n "$INITSCRIPT" ]; then
     fi
   done
 fi
+
+# remove bash_completion.d
+if [ -f "/etc/bash_completion.d/arkmanager" ]; then
+   rm "/etc/bash_completion.d/arkmanager"
+fi