diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ca2872f32..a02326523 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ Wil Cooley
 William Lee
 Wim Glenn
 Wouter van Ackooy
+Wu Zhenyu
 Xixi Zhao
 Xuan Luong
 Xuecong Liao
diff --git a/changelog/10304.feature.rst b/changelog/10304.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d3896cf98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/10304.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added shell completions by shtab
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 38f50556c..d35028bb3 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ console_scripts =
     py.test=pytest:console_main
 
 [options.extras_require]
+completion =
+    shtab
 testing =
     argcomplete
     hypothesis>=3.56
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ testing =
     nose
     pygments>=2.7.2
     requests
+    shtab
     xmlschema
 
 [options.package_data]
diff --git a/src/_pytest/__init__.py b/src/_pytest/__init__.py
index 8a406c5c7..5301acd53 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/__init__.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__all__ = ["__version__", "version_tuple"]
+__all__ = ["__version__", "version_tuple", "shtab", "XML_FILE", "PREAMBLE"]
 
 try:
     from ._version import version as __version__, version_tuple
@@ -7,3 +7,24 @@ except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
     # unknown only works because we do poor mans version compare
     __version__ = "unknown"
     version_tuple = (0, 0, "unknown")  # type:ignore[assignment]
+
+try:
+    import shtab
+except ImportError:
+    from . import _shtab as shtab
+
+# https://github.com/iterative/shtab/blob/5358dda86e8ea98bf801a43a24ad73cd9f820c63/examples/customcomplete.py#L11-L22
+XML_FILE = {
+    "bash": "_shtab_greeter_compgen_xml_files",
+    "zsh": "_files -g '*.xml'",
+    "tcsh": "f:*.xml",
+}
+PREAMBLE = {
+    "bash": """
+# $1=COMP_WORDS[1]
+_shtab_greeter_compgen_xml_files() {
+  compgen -d -- $1  # recurse into subdirs
+  compgen -f -X '!*?.xml' -- $1
+}
+"""
+}
diff --git a/src/_pytest/_shtab.py b/src/_pytest/_shtab.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..609e45e24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/_pytest/_shtab.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+"""A shim of shtab."""
+from argparse import Action
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from typing import Any
+from typing import Dict
+from typing import List
+
+FILE = None
+DIRECTORY = DIR = None
+
+
+def add_argument_to(parser: ArgumentParser, *args: List[Any], **kwargs: Dict[str, Any]):
+    Action.complete = None  # type: ignore
+    return parser
diff --git a/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py b/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
index d3f01916b..31726bdde 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/config/argparsing.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 from typing import Union
 
 import _pytest._io
+from _pytest import PREAMBLE
+from _pytest import shtab
 from _pytest.compat import final
 from _pytest.config.exceptions import UsageError
 from _pytest.deprecated import ARGUMENT_PERCENT_DEFAULT
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ from _pytest.deprecated import check_ispytest
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from typing_extensions import Literal
 
+
 FILE_OR_DIR = "file_or_dir"
 
 
@@ -124,11 +127,19 @@ class Parser:
             if group.options:
                 desc = group.description or group.name
                 arggroup = optparser.add_argument_group(desc)
+                if group.name == "debugconfig":
+                    shtab.add_argument_to(arggroup, preamble=PREAMBLE)
                 for option in group.options:
                     n = option.names()
                     a = option.attrs()
-                    arggroup.add_argument(*n, **a)
+                    complete = a.get("complete")
+                    if complete:
+                        del a["complete"]  # type: ignore
+                    action = arggroup.add_argument(*n, **a)
+                    if complete:
+                        action.complete = complete  # type: ignore
         file_or_dir_arg = optparser.add_argument(FILE_OR_DIR, nargs="*")
+        file_or_dir_arg.complete = shtab.FILE  # type: ignore
         # bash like autocompletion for dirs (appending '/')
         # Type ignored because typeshed doesn't know about argcomplete.
         file_or_dir_arg.completer = filescompleter  # type: ignore
diff --git a/src/_pytest/helpconfig.py b/src/_pytest/helpconfig.py
index 151bc6dff..9e137d224 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/helpconfig.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/helpconfig.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from typing import Optional
 from typing import Union
 
 import pytest
+from _pytest import shtab
 from _pytest.config import Config
 from _pytest.config import ExitCode
 from _pytest.config import PrintHelp
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         help="Store internal tracing debug information in this log file. "
         "This file is opened with 'w' and truncated as a result, care advised. "
         "Default: pytestdebug.log.",
+        complete=shtab.FILE,
     )
     group._addoption(
         "-o",
diff --git a/src/_pytest/junitxml.py b/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
index 7a5170f32..5d61fc974 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from typing import Tuple
 from typing import Union
 
 import pytest
+from . import XML_FILE
 from _pytest import nodes
 from _pytest import timing
 from _pytest._code.code import ExceptionRepr
@@ -33,7 +34,6 @@ from _pytest.reports import TestReport
 from _pytest.stash import StashKey
 from _pytest.terminal import TerminalReporter
 
-
 xml_key = StashKey["LogXML"]()
 
 
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         type=functools.partial(filename_arg, optname="--junitxml"),
         default=None,
         help="Create junit-xml style report file at given path",
+        complete=XML_FILE,
     )
     group.addoption(
         "--junitprefix",
diff --git a/src/_pytest/logging.py b/src/_pytest/logging.py
index f9091399f..3939e197d 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/logging.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/logging.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from typing import TypeVar
 from typing import Union
 
 from _pytest import nodes
+from _pytest import shtab
 from _pytest._io import TerminalWriter
 from _pytest.capture import CaptureManager
 from _pytest.compat import final
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ from _pytest.main import Session
 from _pytest.stash import StashKey
 from _pytest.terminal import TerminalReporter
 
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     logging_StreamHandler = logging.StreamHandler[StringIO]
 
@@ -272,6 +274,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         dest="log_file",
         default=None,
         help="Path to a file when logging will be written to",
+        complete=shtab.FILE,
     )
     add_option_ini(
         "--log-file-level",
diff --git a/src/_pytest/main.py b/src/_pytest/main.py
index 61fb7eaa4..d67293140 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/main.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/main.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import attr
 
 import _pytest._code
 from _pytest import nodes
+from _pytest import shtab
 from _pytest.compat import final
 from _pytest.compat import overload
 from _pytest.config import Config
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         dest="inifilename",
         help="Load configuration from `file` instead of trying to locate one of the "
         "implicit configuration files",
+        complete=shtab.FILE,
     )
     group._addoption(
         "--continue-on-collection-errors",
@@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         help="Define root directory for tests. Can be relative path: 'root_dir', './root_dir', "
         "'root_dir/another_dir/'; absolute path: '/home/user/root_dir'; path with variables: "
         "'$HOME/root_dir'.",
+        complete=shtab.DIR,
     )
 
     group = parser.getgroup("collect", "collection")
@@ -183,6 +186,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         metavar="dir",
         type=functools.partial(directory_arg, optname="--confcutdir"),
         help="Only load conftest.py's relative to specified dir",
+        complete=shtab.DIR,
     )
     group.addoption(
         "--noconftest",
@@ -226,6 +230,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
             "Base temporary directory for this test run. "
             "(Warning: this directory is removed if it exists.)"
         ),
+        complete=shtab.DIR,
     )