diff --git a/src/misc/wordexp.c b/src/misc/wordexp.c
index 34fc900ac73e3ea928f111ecc098f1b15036eed2..15adddbe381e14cb6e70b7db6f6502e84111deb6 100644
--- a/src/misc/wordexp.c
+++ b/src/misc/wordexp.c
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ static int do_wordexp(const char *s, wordexp_t *we, int flags)
 
 	we->we_wordv = wv;
 	we->we_wordc = i;
+
+	for (i=we->we_offs; i; i--)
+		we->we_wordv[i-1] = 0;
+
 	if (flags & WRDE_DOOFFS) we->we_wordc -= we->we_offs;
 	return err;
 }