diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 983d5a68c..34730cf71 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-03-09  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* rmsym: Fix regular expression.
+
 2003-03-09  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* Makefile.in: Change from using new-* to cygwin0 for temporary
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/rmsym b/winsup/cygwin/rmsym
index 685802684..428aa9d50 100755
--- a/winsup/cygwin/rmsym
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/rmsym
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ lib=$1; shift
 nm=$1; shift
 ar=$1; shift
 ranlib=$1; shift
-grepit=`echo $* | sed 's/ /|__imp__/g'`
-[ -n "$grepit" ] && grepit="__imp__$grepit"
+grepit=`echo $* | sed 's/ /\$|__imp__/g'`
+[ -n "$grepit" ] && grepit="__imp__$grepit\$"
 objs=`$nm $lib | awk -F: '/^d[0-9]*.o:/ {obj=$1} '"/$grepit/"'{print obj}'`
 [ -n "$objs" ] || exit 1
 $ar d $lib $objs