diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 511dcf07..b5f72aac 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #   bash_completion - some programmable completion functions for bash 2.05b
 #
-#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.456 2002/10/22 20:23:41 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.457 2002/10/23 15:50:04 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ _man()
 	COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]##*/?(:)} )
 	# strip suffix from man pages
 	COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]%.@(gz|bz2)} )
-	COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '${COMPREPLY[@]%.*}' -- "$cur" ) )
+	COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '${COMPREPLY[@]%.*}' -- "${cur//\\\\/}" ) )
 
 	[[ "$prev" != [0-9ln] ]] && _filedir '[0-9ln]'