diff -up man-1.6f/src/makewhatis.sh.pom man-1.6f/src/makewhatis.sh
--- man-1.6f/src/makewhatis.sh.pom	2008-11-20 09:09:18.000000000 +0100
+++ man-1.6f/src/makewhatis.sh	2008-11-20 09:20:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@ do
 	   utf8=
             for x in $(find $mandir/${pages}$i -name '*' $findarg0 $findarg)
             do
-               if [ ${x%.gz} != ${x} ]
+               if [ "${x%.gz}" != "${x}" ]
                then
                   cat=zcat
-               elif [ ${x%.bz2} != ${x} ]
+               elif [ "${x%.bz2}" != "${x}" ]
                then
                   cat=bzcat
                else