diff --git a/completion.go b/completion.go
index 4379f7557e..55321a5e2b 100644
--- a/completion.go
+++ b/completion.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package cli
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"embed"
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
 )
@@ -10,36 +9,28 @@ import (
 const (
 	completionCommandName = "completion"
 
-	// This flag is supposed to only be used by the completion script itself, to generate completions on the fly.
+	// This flag is supposed to only be used by the completion script itself to generate completions on the fly.
 	completionFlagName = "generate-shell-completion"
 	completionFlag     = "--" + completionFlagName
 )
 
-var (
-	//go:embed autocomplete
-	autoCompleteFS embed.FS
-
-	shellCompletions = map[string]renderCompletionFunc{
-		"bash": getCompletion("autocomplete/bash_autocomplete"),
-		"ps":   getCompletion("autocomplete/powershell_autocomplete.ps1"),
-		"zsh": func(cmd *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
-			return genZshCompletion(appName), nil
-		},
-		"fish": func(c *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
-			return c.ToFishCompletion()
-		},
-	}
-)
+var shellCompletions = map[string]renderCompletionFunc{
+	"bash": func(cmd *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
+		return genBashCompletion(appName), nil
+	},
+	"zsh": func(cmd *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
+		return genZshCompletion(appName), nil
+	},
+	"fish": func(c *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
+		return c.ToFishCompletion()
+	},
+	"pwsh": func(cmd *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
+		return genPwshCompletion(), nil
+	},
+}
 
 type renderCompletionFunc func(cmd *Command, appName string) (string, error)
 
-func getCompletion(s string) renderCompletionFunc {
-	return func(cmd *Command, appName string) (string, error) {
-		b, err := autoCompleteFS.ReadFile(s)
-		return string(b), err
-	}
-}
-
 func buildCompletionCommand(appName string) *Command {
 	return &Command{
 		Name:   completionCommandName,
@@ -81,11 +72,49 @@ func printShellCompletion(_ context.Context, cmd *Command, appName string) error
 	return nil
 }
 
+func genBashCompletion(appName string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(`#!/usr/env/bin bash
+
+# This is a shell completion script auto-generated by https://github.com/urfave/cli for bash.
+
+# Macs have bash3 for which the bash-completion package doesn't include
+# _init_completion. This is a minimal version of that function.
+_cli_init_completion() {
+  COMPREPLY=()
+  _get_comp_words_by_ref "$@" cur prev words cword
+}
+
+_cli_bash_autocomplete() {
+  if [[ "${COMP_WORDS[0]}" != "source" ]]; then
+    local cur opts base words
+    COMPREPLY=()
+    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+    if declare -F _init_completion >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      _init_completion -n "=:" || return
+    else
+      _cli_init_completion -n "=:" || return
+    fi
+    words=("${words[@]:0:$cword}")
+    if [[ "$cur" == "-"* ]]; then
+      requestComp="${words[*]} ${cur} --generate-shell-completion"
+    else
+      requestComp="${words[*]} --generate-shell-completion"
+    fi
+    opts=$(eval "${requestComp}" 2>/dev/null)
+    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}))
+    return 0
+  fi
+}
+
+complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _cli_bash_autocomplete %[1]s
+`, appName)
+}
+
 func genZshCompletion(appName string) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf(`#compdef %[1]s
 compdef _%[1]s %[1]s
 
-# This is a shell completion script auto-generated by https://github.com/urfave/cli.
+# This is a shell completion script auto-generated by https://github.com/urfave/cli for zsh.
 
 _%[1]s() {
 	local -a opts # Declare a local array
@@ -113,3 +142,15 @@ if [ "$funcstack[1]" = "_%[1]s" ]; then
 fi
 `, appName)
 }
+
+func genPwshCompletion() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(`$fn = $($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name)
+$name = $fn -replace "(.*)\.ps1$", '$1'
+Register-ArgumentCompleter -Native -CommandName $name -ScriptBlock {
+     param($commandName, $wordToComplete, $cursorPosition)
+     $other = "$wordToComplete --generate-shell-completion"
+         Invoke-Expression $other | ForEach-Object {
+            [System.Management.Automation.CompletionResult]::new($_, $_, 'ParameterValue', $_)
+         }
+ }`)
+}