diff --git a/maketgz b/maketgz
index 880882ad4..38d2b6389 100755
--- a/maketgz
+++ b/maketgz
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ make -s dist VERSION=$version
 
 bzip2="curl-$version.tar.bz2"
 echo "Generating $bzip2"
-gzip -dc $targz | bzip2 --best - > $bzip2
+gzip -dc $targz | bzip2 --best > $bzip2
 
 ############################################################################
 #