diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index 066ceab1..d98eeb38 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 1.311 2002/05/11 09:28:58 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.312 2002/05/11 17:22:12 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ _ssh()
 	
 	    # get host aliases from config files
 	    if [ ${#config[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
-		hosts=$( compgen -W "$( sed -ne "s/^Host["$'\t '"]*\([^*?]*\)$/\1/p" ${config[@]} )" -- $cur)
+		hosts=$( compgen -W "$( echo $( sed -ne "s/^Host["$'\t '"]*\([^*?]*\)$/\1/p" ${config[@]} ) )" -- $cur )
 		COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]} $hosts )
 	    fi