diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 2ebb48c0..732b16d7 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 1.265 2002/04/12 00:24:08 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.266 2002/04/13 19:21:42 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ _command()
 			# get current command line minus initial command
 			cline="${COMP_LINE#$1 }"
 			# split current command line tokens into array
-			COMP_WORDS=( "$cline" )
+			COMP_WORDS=( $cline )
 			$func $cline
 			# remove any \: generated by a command that doesn't
 			# default to filenames or dirnames (e.g. sudo chown)