1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/procps/pgrep.c b/procps/pgrep.c
index 336fa84ba..f08d6cc5f 100644
--- a/procps/pgrep.c
+++ b/procps/pgrep.c
@@ -111,8 +111,14 @@ int pgrep_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
                 if (proc->pid == pid)
                         continue;
                 cmd = proc->argv0;
-                if (!cmd)
+                if (!cmd) {
                         cmd = proc->comm;
+                } else {
+                        int i = proc->argv_len;
+                        while (i) {
+                                if (!cmd[i]) cmd[i] = ' ';
+                                i--;
+                }
                 /* NB: OPT_INVERT is always 0 or 1 */
                 if ((regexec(&re_buffer, cmd, 1, re_match, 0) == 0 /* match found */
                      && (!OPT_ANCHOR || (re_match[0].rm_so == 0 && re_match[0].rm_eo == (regoff_t)strlen(cmd)))) ^ OPT_INVERT