diff --git a/rel/overlay/bin/remsh b/rel/overlay/bin/remsh
index 117acaf..0be2bd9 100755
--- a/rel/overlay/bin/remsh
+++ b/rel/overlay/bin/remsh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 # If present, extract cookie from ERL_FLAGS
 # This is used by the CouchDB Dockerfile and Helm chart
-NODE=$(echo "$ERL_FLAGS" | sed 's/^.*name \([^ ][^ ]*\).*$/\1/g')
+NODE=$(echo "$ERL_FLAGS" | sed -n 's/^.*name \([^ ][^ ]*\).*$/\1/p')
 if test -f "$ARGS_FILE"; then
 # else attempt to extract from vm.args
   ARGS_FILE_COOKIE=$(awk '$1=="-name"{print $2}' "$ARGS_FILE")