diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6dd9123e..21d7bf9e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ bash-completion (2.x)
     *.awb, and *.iso (Alioth: #311420) to mplayer filename completions.
   * Add "short" tarball extensions to unxz, unlzma etc completions.
   * Improve /etc/init.d/*, ipmitool, jar, javadoc, man, mencoder, mkdir,
-    mplayer, povray, rpmbuild, sqlite3, wodim, and general help parsing
+    mplayer, povray, rpmbuild, sqlite3, tar, wodim, and general help parsing
     completions.
   * Fix p4 and povray completions (Alioth: #312625).
   * Add *.xsd, *.xsl, *.rng, and *.wsdl to xmllint filename completions.
diff --git a/completions/tar b/completions/tar
index e38bc590..44c6b45a 100644
--- a/completions/tar
+++ b/completions/tar
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ _tar()
         # devise how to untar and list it
         untar=t${COMP_WORDS[1]//[^Izjyf]/}
 
-        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$( printf '%s ' $( tar $untar $tar \
+        local IFS=$'\n'
+        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$( printf '%s\n' $( tar $untar $tar \
             2>/dev/null ) )" -- "$cur" ) )
         return 0
     fi