diff --git a/src/allclients.py b/src/allclients.py
index 241de5b59b46db80f26eb5dac8c85ccff444a109..0e86f774bec25e8c4e492051aa7baeffac3259a1 100644
--- a/src/allclients.py
+++ b/src/allclients.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ class VerboseOptionParser(optparse.OptionParser):
 
 def local_interfaces():
     ip = subprocess.check_output([ 'ip', 'addr', 'show' ]).decode('utf8')
-    return (re.findall('inet\s+([0-9.]+)/[0-9]+', ip, re.MULTILINE) +
-            re.findall('inet6\s+([0-9a-f:]+)/[0-9]+', ip, re.MULTILINE))
+    return (re.findall('inet\\s+([0-9.]+)/[0-9]+', ip, re.MULTILINE) +
+            re.findall('inet6\\s+([0-9a-f:]+)/[0-9]+', ip, re.MULTILINE))
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     optParser = VerboseOptionParser(usage="%prog [options] command*")