diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index ef52f124..4ec8bb9b 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 1.235 2002/03/29 16:33:08 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.236 2002/03/30 19:20:51 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -1737,6 +1737,15 @@ _command()
 			# split current command line tokens into array
 			COMP_WORDS=( $cline )
 			$func $cline
+			# remove any \: generated by a command that doesn't
+			# default to filenames or dirnames (e.g. sudo chown)
+			if [ "${cspec#*-o }" != "$cspec" ]; then
+				cspec=${cspec#*-o }
+				cspec=${cspec%% *}
+				if [[ "$cspec" != @(dir|file)names ]]; then
+					COMPREPLY=( "${COMPREPLY[@]//\\\\:/:}" )
+				fi
+			fi
 		elif [ "${cspec#*-[abcdefgjkvu]}" != "$cspec" ]; then
 			# complete -[abcdefgjkvu]
 			func=$( echo $cspec | \