diff --git a/scripts/find-dependency.sh b/scripts/find-dependency.sh
index dd8489868c0e5b85de05072b08e2331d93cde10e..454ff7a2b46d78e07c78958ea1aceb48dbfb1002 100644
--- a/scripts/find-dependency.sh
+++ b/scripts/find-dependency.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ if [[ -z "$1" ]];then
     echo "Usage: find_dependency module_name"
     exit 1
 fi
-for P in `$(echo "$MODULEPATH" | tr ":" " ")`; do
+for P in `echo "$MODULEPATH" | tr ":" " "`; do
     L=$(grep -E "(load|add)[[:punct:] ]*$1[^-[:alnum:]]*$" -R "$P" | sort)
     if [[ ! -z "$L" ]]; then
 	LIST+=$L