diff --git a/setup/so-functions b/setup/so-functions
index 416656bc2..d804bef15 100755
--- a/setup/so-functions
+++ b/setup/so-functions
@@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ securityonion_repo() {
 		# if the package is updated when the update_packages function is called
 		logCmd "yum -v -y update centos-release"
 		info "Backing up the .repo files that were added by the centos-release package."
-		logCmd "find /etc/yum.repos.d/ -type f -not -name 'securityonion*repo' -exec mv -bvf {} /root/oldrepos/ \\;"
+		logCmd "find /etc/yum.repos.d/ -type f -not -name 'securityonion*repo' -exec mv -bvf {} /root/oldrepos/ +"
 		logCmd "yum repolist all"
 	fi
 }