diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index f68db2ac..0fd4b983 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 1.564 2003/05/16 07:12:14 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.565 2003/05/17 09:52:42 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -4068,7 +4068,7 @@ _perldoc()
 	    ;;
 	*)
 	    _perlmodules
-	    COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]} $( compgen -W '$( PAGER=cat man perl | sed -ne "/perl.*Perl overview/,/perlwin32/s/^[^a-z0-9]*\([a-z0-9]*\).*$/\1/p")' -- $cur ) )
+	    COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]} $( compgen -W '$( PAGER=cat man perl 2>/dev/null | sed -ne "/perl.*Perl overview/,/perlwin32/s/^[^a-z0-9]*\([a-z0-9]*\).*$/\1/p")' -- $cur ) )
 
 	    return 0
 	    ;;