diff --git a/src/redis-cli.c b/src/redis-cli.c
index a2bd5ef2c..496c18604 100644
--- a/src/redis-cli.c
+++ b/src/redis-cli.c
@@ -851,8 +851,7 @@ static void repl() {
                 }
             }
             /* Free the argument vector */
-            while(argc--) sdsfree(argv[argc]);
-            zfree(argv);
+            sdsfreesplitres(argv,argc);
         }
         /* linenoise() returns malloc-ed lines like readline() */
         free(line);