diff --git a/extras/django_bash_completion b/extras/django_bash_completion
index 1c3887eba0..8f85211705 100755
--- a/extras/django_bash_completion
+++ b/extras/django_bash_completion
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ complete -F _django_completion -o default django-admin.py manage.py django-admin
 _python_django_completion()
 {
     if [[ ${COMP_CWORD} -ge 2 ]]; then
-        PYTHON_EXE=$( basename -- ${COMP_WORDS[0]} )
+        PYTHON_EXE=${COMP_WORDS[0]##*/}
         echo $PYTHON_EXE | egrep "python([2-9]\.[0-9])?" >/dev/null 2>&1
         if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
-            PYTHON_SCRIPT=$( basename -- ${COMP_WORDS[1]} )
+            PYTHON_SCRIPT=${COMP_WORDS[1]##*/}
             echo $PYTHON_SCRIPT | egrep "manage\.py|django-admin(\.py)?" >/dev/null 2>&1
             if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
                 COMPREPLY=( $( COMP_WORDS="${COMP_WORDS[*]:1}" \
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ unset pythons
 if command -v whereis &>/dev/null; then
     python_interpreters=$(whereis python | cut -d " " -f 2-)
     for python in $python_interpreters; do
-        pythons="${pythons} $(basename -- $python)"
+        pythons="${pythons} ${python##*/}"
     done
     pythons=$(echo $pythons | tr " " "\n" | sort -u | tr "\n" " ")
 else