If you are an Oh-my-zsh user, see the Laravel 5 plugin
For the rest of us Bash users, all of the Laravel Artisan autocomplete solutions out there require installing a composer package to get a list of artisan commands. Turns out this isn't really necessary. Simply add the provided code in ~/.bash_profile ( or similarly sourced file ) and you'll get artisan command tab completes on any project on your system.
_artisan()
{
local arg="${COMP_LINE#php }"
case "$arg" in