diff --git a/extras/scrapy_bash_completion b/extras/scrapy_bash_completion
index 3e4750e3d..f311a5a28 100644
--- a/extras/scrapy_bash_completion
+++ b/extras/scrapy_bash_completion
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ _scrapy_completion() {
             COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $(compgen -W "$spiders" -- "$cur"))
         ;;
         *)
-            commands="crawl fetch genspider list parse queue runserver runspider settings shell startproject view"
-            COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $(compgen -W "$commands" -- "$cmd"))
+            if [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]; then
+                commands="crawl fetch genspider list parse queue runserver runspider settings shell startproject view"
+                COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $(compgen -W "$commands" -- "$cmd"))
+            fi
         ;;
     esac
 }