diff --git a/test/parallel/test-bash-completion.js b/test/parallel/test-bash-completion.js
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+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const child_process = require('child_process');
+
+const p = child_process.spawnSync(
+  process.execPath, [ '--completion-bash' ]);
+assert.ifError(p.error);
+assert.ok(p.stdout.toString().includes(
+  `_node_complete() {
+  local cur_word options
+  cur_word="\${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+  if [[ "\${cur_word}" == -* ]] ; then
+    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W '`));
+assert.ok(p.stdout.toString().includes(
+  `' -- "\${cur_word}") )
+    return 0
+  else
+    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -f "\${cur_word}") )
+    return 0
+  fi
+}
+complete -F _node_complete node node_g`));