diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index df304262..d4836891 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
 ### Fixed
 
 * Crash in scrollback search
+* Crash when a **pipe-visible** or **pipe-scrollback** command
+  contained an unclosed quote
+  (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/49).
 
 
 ### Security
diff --git a/tokenize.c b/tokenize.c
index b4aab6b5..2671e23b 100644
--- a/tokenize.c
+++ b/tokenize.c
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ tokenize_cmdline(char *cmdline, char ***argv)
         char *end = strchr(p, delim);
         if (end == NULL) {
             if (delim != ' ') {
-                LOG_ERR("unterminated %s quote\n", delim == '"' ? "double" : "single");
+                LOG_ERR("unterminated %s quote", delim == '"' ? "double" : "single");
                 free(*argv);
+                *argv = NULL;
                 return false;
             }