diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index 66cdb3a..4b1ca63 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ alias dbgrep='dbgrep.pl -vpuroot'
 alias tcpdump='tcpdump -l'
 alias pacman='pacman --color auto'
 alias xo=xdg-open
-alias ag='ag -C 2 --pager=$PAGER --smart-case'
+alias ag='ag -C 2 --pager="$PAGER" --smart-case'
 alias prepend-timestamp='gawk "{ print strftime(\"[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]\"), \$0; fflush() }"'
 
 function ds() {