diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__lxc_container/gencode-remote b/cdist/conf/type/__lxc_container/gencode-remote
index 42e1e43e..6bef504e 100755
--- a/cdist/conf/type/__lxc_container/gencode-remote
+++ b/cdist/conf/type/__lxc_container/gencode-remote
@@ -207,10 +207,10 @@ DONE
     # check if smth. to be deleted
     #  must be before adding, because it takes the content of the original file
     #  because 'cat $file > $file' will not work (> opens before command reads it)
-    # will create extended regex pattern for grep with malformed spaces
+    # will create a basic regex pattern for grep to ignore malformed spaces
     if [ -s "$__object/files/config.del" ]; then
         cat <<DONE
-grep -v -E -f - <<'ABSENT' "$container_config" > "\$tmpconfig"
+grep -v -f - <<'ABSENT' "$container_config" > "\$tmpconfig"
 $(awk -v FS=' = ' -v OFS=' = ' -v blank='[[:blank:]]*' '
 function ntostring(n) { ret=""; for(i=n; i<=NF; i++) ret=ret $i (i<NF ? OFS : ""); return ret }
 { printf "^%s%s%s=%s%s%s$%s", blank, $1, blank, blank, ntostring(2), blank, ORS }