diff --git a/doc/man/mkappendix.sh b/doc/man/mkappendix.sh
index 8f8a6220c..8f3ed3d27 100755
--- a/doc/man/mkappendix.sh
+++ b/doc/man/mkappendix.sh
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 cat <<EOF
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
 <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
 <appendix id="ap-ra-man-pages">
   <title>Resource agent manual pages</title>
 EOF
 
-for manpage in `printf "%s\n" $@ | sort -f`; do
+for manpage in $(printf "%s\n" "$@" | sort -f); do
     cat <<EOF
   <xi:include href="./$manpage" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
 EOF
 done
 
 cat <<EOF
 </appendix>
 EOF
diff --git a/doc/man/ralist.sh b/doc/man/ralist.sh
index ef8f528a6..31444b6e2 100755
--- a/doc/man/ralist.sh
+++ b/doc/man/ralist.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 RADIR=$1
 PREFIX=$2
 SUFFIX=$3
 
-for f in `find $RADIR -type f -executable`; do
-    echo ${PREFIX}`basename $f`${SUFFIX}
+find "$RADIR" -type f -executable | while read -r file; do
+    echo "${PREFIX}$(basename "$file")${SUFFIX}"
 done