diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 65482d7e..0080f7a6 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #   bash_completion - some programmable completion functions for bash 2.05a
 #
-#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.138 2002/02/20 06:41:50 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.139 2002/02/20 19:09:45 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ _known_hosts()
 	    done
 	else
 	    # Just do normal hostname completion
-	    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -A hostname -S $suffix $cur ) )
+	    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -A hostname -S "$suffix" $cur ) )
 	fi
 
 	return 0