diff --git a/proxmox-router/Cargo.toml b/proxmox-router/Cargo.toml
index b1827bd7..60f346f7 100644
--- a/proxmox-router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox-router/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ exclude = [ "debian" ]
 anyhow = "1.0"
 http = "0.2"
 hyper = { version = "0.14", features = [ "full" ] }
+nix = "0.19.1"
 percent-encoding = "2.1"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 unicode-width ="0.1.8"
diff --git a/proxmox-router/src/cli/completion_helpers.rs b/proxmox-router/src/cli/completion_helpers.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..64709d3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxmox-router/src/cli/completion_helpers.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+use nix::dir::Dir;
+use nix::fcntl::{AtFlags, OFlag};
+use nix::sys::stat::{fstatat, Mode};
+
+pub fn complete_file_name(arg: &str, _param: &HashMap<String, String>) -> Vec<String> {
+    let mut result = vec![];
+
+    let mut dirname = PathBuf::from(if arg.is_empty() { "./" } else { arg });
+
+    let is_dir = match fstatat(libc::AT_FDCWD, &dirname, AtFlags::empty()) {
+        Ok(stat) => (stat.st_mode & libc::S_IFMT) == libc::S_IFDIR,
+        Err(_) => false,
+    };
+
+    if !is_dir {
+        if let Some(parent) = dirname.parent() {
+            dirname = parent.to_owned();
+        }
+    }
+
+    let mut dir =
+        match Dir::openat(libc::AT_FDCWD, &dirname, OFlag::O_DIRECTORY, Mode::empty()) {
+            Ok(d) => d,
+            Err(_) => return result,
+        };
+
+    for item in dir.iter() {
+        if let Ok(entry) = item {
+            if let Ok(name) = entry.file_name().to_str() {
+                if name == "." || name == ".." {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                let mut newpath = dirname.clone();
+                newpath.push(name);
+
+                if let Ok(stat) = fstatat(libc::AT_FDCWD, &newpath, AtFlags::empty())
+                {
+                    if (stat.st_mode & libc::S_IFMT) == libc::S_IFDIR {
+                        newpath.push("");
+                        if let Some(newpath) = newpath.to_str() {
+                            result.push(newpath.to_owned());
+                        }
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                }
+                if let Some(newpath) = newpath.to_str() {
+                    result.push(newpath.to_owned());
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    result
+}
diff --git a/proxmox-router/src/cli/mod.rs b/proxmox-router/src/cli/mod.rs
index 1494e319..cc724029 100644
--- a/proxmox-router/src/cli/mod.rs
+++ b/proxmox-router/src/cli/mod.rs
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ pub use text_table::*;
 mod completion;
 pub use completion::*;
 
+mod completion_helpers;
+pub use completion_helpers::*;
+
 mod getopts;
 pub use getopts::*;