diff --git a/list_manual_pkgs.sh b/list_manual_pkgs.sh
index ebb0dd9..670a2af 100644
--- a/list_manual_pkgs.sh
+++ b/list_manual_pkgs.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # one-liner to list just the names of packages manually-installed with xbps-install, with no version numbers etc
-xbps-query --list-manual-pkgs | awk -F '{gsub(/-[0-9]+.*$/, ""); print $0}'
+xbps-query --list-manual-pkgs | awk '{gsub(/-[0-9]+.*$/, ""); print $0}'
+
+# alternative sed version:
+# xbps-query --list-manual-pkgs | awk -F '{gsub(/-[0-9]+.*$/, ""); print $0}'