diff --git a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin/so-elasticsearch-templates-load b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
index cb727a5d3..aa9502396 100755
--- a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
+++ b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ echo
 cd ${ELASTICSEARCH_TEMPLATES}/index
 
 echo "Loading Security Onion index templates..."
-for i in *; do TEMPLATE=$(echo $i | cut -d '-' -f2); echo "so-$TEMPLATE"; so-elasticsearch-query _index_template/so-$TEMPLATE -d@$i -XPUT 2>/dev/null; echo; done
+for i in *; do TEMPLATE=${i::-14}; echo "$TEMPLATE"; so-elasticsearch-query _index_template/$TEMPLATE -d@$i -XPUT 2>/dev/null; echo; done
 echo
 
 cd - >/dev/null