diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 0080f7a6..7f175230 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 1.139 2002/02/20 19:09:45 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.140 2002/02/21 20:26:36 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -1294,6 +1294,8 @@ _tar()
 	COMPREPLY=()
 	cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
 
+	[ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ] && return 0
+
 	case "${COMP_WORDS[1]}" in
 	c*f)
 		_filedir