diff --git a/share/completions/apropos.fish b/share/completions/apropos.fish
index 5fe4b9f13..757830d66 100644
--- a/share/completions/apropos.fish
+++ b/share/completions/apropos.fish
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 function __fish_complete_apropos
 	if test (commandline -ct)
 		set str (commandline -ct)
-		apropos $str|sed -e "s/^\(.*$str\([^ ]*\).*\)\$/$str\2"\t"\1/"
+		apropos $str ^/dev/null |sed -e "s/^\(.*$str\([^ ]*\).*\)\$/$str\2"\t"\1/"
 	end
 end