diff --git a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
index c3c5ff69f..268b6138d 100755
--- a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
+++ b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ if [ ! -f /opt/so/state/estemplates.txt ]; then
     for i in $pattern; do
       TEMPLATE=${i::-14}
       echo "$TEMPLATE"
-      retry 60 5 "so-elasticsearch-query _index_template/$TEMPLATE -d@$i -XPUT | grep '{\"acknowledged\":true}'" || fail "Could not load template: $TEMPLATE"     
+      retry 60 5 "so-elasticsearch-query _index_template/$TEMPLATE -d@$i -XPUT" "{\"acknowledged\":true}" || fail "Could not load template: $TEMPLATE"     
       done
   else
     {% if GLOBALS.role == 'so-heavynode' %}