diff --git a/src/frontend/parser/glob.c b/src/frontend/parser/glob.c
index 9c366bf47..de27adec0 100644
--- a/src/frontend/parser/glob.c
+++ b/src/frontend/parser/glob.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ cp_doglob(wordlist *wlist)
     for (wl = wlist; wl; wl = wl->wl_next)
         if (*wl->wl_word == cp_til) {
             s = cp_tildexpand(wl->wl_word);
+            txfree(wl->wl_word);    /* sjb - fix memory leak */
             if (!s)
                 *wl->wl_word = '\0';	/* MW. We Con't touch tmalloc addres */
             else