diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 68b82c9..758456c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "clap_generate"
+version = "3.0.0-beta.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "097ab5db1c3417442270cd57c8dd39f6c3114d3ce09d595f9efddbb1fcfaa799"
+dependencies = [
+ "clap",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crc32fast"
 version = "1.2.1"
@@ -283,6 +292,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "atty",
  "bzip2",
  "clap",
+ "clap_generate",
  "flate2",
  "infer",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c42ac8b..e9d9b02 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ zip         = { version =  "0.5.13", default-features = false, features = ["defl
 flate2      = { version = "1.0.22", default-features = false, features = ["zlib"] }
 zstd        = { version = "0.9.0", default-features = false, features = ["thin"] }
 
+[build-dependencies]
+clap = "=3.0.0-beta.5"
+clap_generate = "=3.0.0-beta.5"
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.2.0"
 infer = "0.5.0"
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5372154
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use clap::{ArgEnum, IntoApp};
+use clap_generate::{generate_to, Shell};
+
+use std::{env, fs::create_dir_all, path::Path};
+
+include!("src/opts.rs");
+
+fn main() {
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=GEN_COMPLETIONS");
+
+    if env::var_os("GEN_COMPLETIONS") != Some("1".into()) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    let out = &Path::new(&env::var_os("OUT_DIR").unwrap()).join("completions");
+    create_dir_all(out).unwrap();
+    let app = &mut Opts::into_app();
+
+    for shell in Shell::value_variants() {
+        generate_to(*shell, app, "ouch", out).unwrap();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/archive/zip.rs b/src/archive/zip.rs
index db35727..f15e650 100644
--- a/src/archive/zip.rs
+++ b/src/archive/zip.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use zip::{self, read::ZipFile, ZipArchive};
 
 use crate::{
     info,
-    utils::{self, dir_is_empty,strip_cur_dir, Bytes},
+    utils::{self, dir_is_empty, strip_cur_dir, Bytes},
 };
 
 use self::utf8::get_invalid_utf8_paths;
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 7a13aab..bd9a8de 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -5,50 +5,9 @@ use std::{
     vec::Vec,
 };
 
-use clap::{Parser, ValueHint};
+use clap::Parser;
 
-use crate::Error;
-
-#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
-#[clap(version, about)]
-pub struct Opts {
-    /// Skip overwrite questions positively.
-    #[clap(short, long, conflicts_with = "no")]
-    pub yes: bool,
-
-    /// Skip overwrite questions negatively.
-    #[clap(short, long)]
-    pub no: bool,
-
-    #[clap(subcommand)]
-    pub cmd: Subcommand,
-}
-
-#[derive(Parser, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
-pub enum Subcommand {
-    /// Compress files.    Alias: c
-    #[clap(alias = "c")]
-    Compress {
-        /// Files to be compressed
-        #[clap(required = true, min_values = 1)]
-        files: Vec<PathBuf>,
-
-        /// The resulting file. Its extensions specify how the files will be compressed and they need to be supported
-        #[clap(required = true, value_hint = ValueHint::FilePath)]
-        output: PathBuf,
-    },
-    /// Compress files.    Alias: d
-    #[clap(alias = "d")]
-    Decompress {
-        /// Files to be decompressed
-        #[clap(required = true, min_values = 1)]
-        files: Vec<PathBuf>,
-
-        /// Decompress files in a directory other than the current
-        #[clap(short, long, value_hint = ValueHint::DirPath)]
-        output: Option<PathBuf>,
-    },
-}
+use crate::{Error, Opts, Subcommand};
 
 impl Opts {
     /// A helper method that calls `clap::Parser::parse` and then translates relative paths to absolute.
diff --git a/src/commands.rs b/src/commands.rs
index 6d41347..b4e6fab 100644
--- a/src/commands.rs
+++ b/src/commands.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ use utils::colors;
 
 use crate::{
     archive,
-    cli::{Opts, Subcommand},
     error::FinalError,
     extension::{
         self,
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ use crate::{
     utils::nice_directory_display,
     utils::to_utf,
     utils::{self, dir_is_empty},
-    Error,
+    Error, Opts, Subcommand,
 };
 
 // Used in BufReader and BufWriter to perform less syscalls
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 9a1a795..d0650e0 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,18 +5,20 @@
 //! 2. It's required by some integration tests at tests/ folder.
 
 // Public modules
-pub mod cli;
+pub mod archive;
 pub mod commands;
 
 // Private modules
-pub mod archive;
+mod cli;
 mod dialogs;
 mod error;
 mod extension;
 mod macros;
+mod opts;
 mod utils;
 
 pub use error::{Error, Result};
+pub use opts::{Opts, Subcommand};
 
 /// The status code ouch has when an error is encountered
 pub const EXIT_FAILURE: i32 = libc::EXIT_FAILURE;
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 9fc88ec..eb886f9 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use ouch::{cli::Opts, commands, Result};
+use ouch::{commands, Opts, Result};
 
 fn main() {
     if let Err(err) = run() {
diff --git a/src/opts.rs b/src/opts.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d414a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/opts.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+use clap::{Parser, ValueHint};
+
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[clap(version, about)]
+pub struct Opts {
+    /// Skip overwrite questions positively.
+    #[clap(short, long, conflicts_with = "no")]
+    pub yes: bool,
+
+    /// Skip overwrite questions negatively.
+    #[clap(short, long)]
+    pub no: bool,
+
+    #[clap(subcommand)]
+    pub cmd: Subcommand,
+}
+
+#[derive(Parser, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
+pub enum Subcommand {
+    /// Compress files.    Alias: c
+    #[clap(alias = "c")]
+    Compress {
+        /// Files to be compressed
+        #[clap(required = true, min_values = 1)]
+        files: Vec<PathBuf>,
+
+        /// The resulting file. Its extensions specify how the files will be compressed and they need to be supported
+        #[clap(required = true, value_hint = ValueHint::FilePath)]
+        output: PathBuf,
+    },
+    /// Compress files.    Alias: d
+    #[clap(alias = "d")]
+    Decompress {
+        /// Files to be decompressed
+        #[clap(required = true, min_values = 1)]
+        files: Vec<PathBuf>,
+
+        /// Decompress files in a directory other than the current
+        #[clap(short, long, value_hint = ValueHint::DirPath)]
+        output: Option<PathBuf>,
+    },
+}
diff --git a/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs b/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs
index 77d929d..71e5d13 100644
--- a/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs
+++ b/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ use std::{
     time::Duration,
 };
 
-use ouch::{
-    cli::{Opts, Subcommand},
-    commands::run,
-};
+use ouch::{commands::run, Opts, Subcommand};
 use rand::{rngs::SmallRng, RngCore, SeedableRng};
 use tempfile::NamedTempFile;
 use utils::*;
diff --git a/tests/utils.rs b/tests/utils.rs
index 10cc749..ad3bdf4 100644
--- a/tests/utils.rs
+++ b/tests/utils.rs
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ use std::{
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 
-use ouch::{
-    cli::{Opts, Subcommand},
-    commands::run,
-};
+use ouch::{commands::run, Opts, Subcommand};
 
 pub fn create_empty_dir(at: &Path, filename: &str) -> PathBuf {
     let dirname = Path::new(filename);