diff --git a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container-completion.sh b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container-completion.sh
index 0fe8ab811a17..5298b5b12038 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container-completion.sh
+++ b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container-completion.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ _nixos-container() {
     COMPREPLY=()
     cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
     prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
-    opts="list create destroy start stop status update login root-login run show-ip show-host-key"
+    opts="list create destroy restart start stop status update login root-login run show-ip show-host-key"
     startstop_opts=$(nixos-container list)
     update_opts="--config"
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl
index 38f4c8d31699..854557eb7237 100755
--- a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl
+++ b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Usage: nixos-container list
          [--host-address <string>]
          [--local-address <string>]
        nixos-container destroy <container-name>
+       nixos-container restart <container-name>
        nixos-container start <container-name>
        nixos-container stop <container-name>
        nixos-container terminate <container-name>