diff --git a/salt/suricata/cron/surilogcompress b/salt/suricata/cron/surilogcompress
index b77c4d635..4fe43bbee 100644
--- a/salt/suricata/cron/surilogcompress
+++ b/salt/suricata/cron/surilogcompress
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Gzip the eve logs
-find /nsm/suricata/eve*.json -type f -printf '%T@\t%p\n' | sort -t $'\t' -g |  head -n -1 |  cut -d $'\t' -f 2- | xargs nice gzip
+find /nsm/suricata/eve*.json -type f -printf '%T@\t%p\n' | sort -t $'\t' -g |  head -n -1 |  cut -d $'\t' -f 2 | xargs nice gzip
 
 # TODO Add stats log
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