diff --git a/share/completions/awk.fish b/share/completions/awk.fish
index d201920fe..c006bfe79 100644
--- a/share/completions/awk.fish
+++ b/share/completions/awk.fish
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 # have been hand edited since.
 #
 
-complete -c awk -s F -d 'Define the input field separator to be the extended regular expression ERE, before any input is read; see Regular Expressions' -r
+complete -c awk -s F -d 'Define the input field separator' -r
 complete -c awk -s f -d 'Specify the pathname of the file progfile containing an awk program' -r
-complete -c awk -s v -d 'The application shall ensure that the assignment argument is in the same form as an assignment operand' -r
+complete -c awk -s v -d 'Ensure that the assignment argument is in the same form as an assignment operand' -r