diff --git a/tests/checks/complete.fish b/tests/checks/complete.fish
index 42c3404b0..6df757858 100644
--- a/tests/checks/complete.fish
+++ b/tests/checks/complete.fish
@@ -549,6 +549,6 @@ complete -C'dotty '
 
 rm -r $tmpdir
 
-complete -C'complete --command=fish' | head -n 1 | string replace -rf '\t.*' ''
+complete -C'complete --command=fish' | string replace -rf 'fish\t.*' 'fish'
 # (one "--command=" is okay, we used to get "--command=--command="
 # CHECK: --command=fish