diff --git a/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp b/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp
index 7072de813..bddc04be6 100644
--- a/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp
+++ b/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ void NCrashReporter::createAndSaveCrash(int sig) {
 #if defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
     finalCrashReport.writeCmdOutput("pciconf -lv | grep -F -A4 vga");
 #else
-    finalCrashReport.writeCmdOutput("lspci -vnn | grep -E (VGA|Display|3D)");
+    finalCrashReport.writeCmdOutput("lspci -vnn | grep -E '(VGA|Display|3D)'");
 #endif
 
     finalCrashReport += "\n\nos-release:\n";
diff --git a/src/debug/HyprCtl.cpp b/src/debug/HyprCtl.cpp
index d315990fe..2d17b2aec 100644
--- a/src/debug/HyprCtl.cpp
+++ b/src/debug/HyprCtl.cpp
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ std::string systemInfoRequest(eHyprCtlOutputFormat format, std::string request)
         }
     } catch (...) { GPUINFO = "error"; }
 #else
-    const std::string GPUINFO = execAndGet("lspci -vnn | grep -E (VGA|Display|3D)");
+    const std::string GPUINFO = execAndGet("lspci -vnn | grep -E '(VGA|Display|3D)'");
 #endif
     result += "GPU information: \n" + GPUINFO;
     if (GPUINFO.contains("NVIDIA") && std::filesystem::exists("/proc/driver/nvidia/version")) {
diff --git a/src/helpers/MiscFunctions.cpp b/src/helpers/MiscFunctions.cpp
index b29ad6aa7..e970b7813 100644
--- a/src/helpers/MiscFunctions.cpp
+++ b/src/helpers/MiscFunctions.cpp
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ void logSystemInfo() {
         }
     } catch (...) { GPUINFO = "error"; }
 #else
-    const std::string GPUINFO = execAndGet("lspci -vnn | grep -E (VGA|Display|3D)");
+    const std::string GPUINFO = execAndGet("lspci -vnn | grep -E '(VGA|Display|3D)'");
 #endif
     Debug::log(LOG, "GPU information:\n{}\n", GPUINFO);