1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libcli.c b/libcli.c
index cdf895c..b069c28 100644
--- a/libcli.c
+++ b/libcli.c
@@ -540,8 +540,9 @@ static int cli_parse_line(const char *line, char *words[], int max_words)
             {
                 if (*p == '|')
                 {
-                    if (!(words[nwords++] = strdup("|")))
-                        return 0;
+		    *ptr = '|';
+		    words[nwords++] = ptr;
+		    ptr += 1 + 1; /* buf is memset zero, so we just need to add +1 to get a null terminated word */
                 }
                 else if (!isspace((unsigned char) *p))
                     word_start = p;