diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
index c7e6750923ef..f2a348b57b8f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
@@ -1572,7 +1572,8 @@ int cmd_script(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 		    "Show the mmap events"),
 	OPT_END()
 	};
-	const char * const script_usage[] = {
+	const char * const script_subcommands[] = { "record", "report", NULL };
+	const char *script_usage[] = {
 		"perf script [<options>]",
 		"perf script [<options>] record <script> [<record-options>] <command>",
 		"perf script [<options>] report <script> [script-args]",
@@ -1586,7 +1587,7 @@ int cmd_script(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 
 	setup_scripting();
 
-	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, script_usage,
+	argc = parse_options_subcommand(argc, argv, options, script_subcommands, script_usage,
 			     PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
 
 	file.path = input_name;
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh b/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh
index dbca6a66f401..8739a1345017 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ __perf_main ()
 		__perfcomp_colon "$evts" "$cur"
 	else
 		# List subcommands for perf commands
-		if [[ $prev_skip_opts == @(kvm|kmem|mem|lock|sched|data|help) ]]; then
+		if [[ $prev_skip_opts == @(kvm|kmem|mem|lock|sched|data|help|script) ]]; then
 			subcmds=$($cmd $prev_skip_opts --list-cmds)
 			__perfcomp_colon "$subcmds" "$cur"
 		fi