diff --git a/bin/cpu_freq b/bin/cpu_freq
index 65b4d752..633278ab 100755
--- a/bin/cpu_freq
+++ b/bin/cpu_freq
@@ -23,9 +23,7 @@ if [ "$1" = "--detail" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ -r "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq" ]; then
-	speed=`awk '{ printf "%.1f", $1 / 1000000 }' /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq`
+	awk '{ printf "\005{= cW}%.1fGHz\005{-} ", $1 / 1000000 }' /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
 else
-	speed=`egrep -i -m 1 "^cpu MHz|^clock|^bogomips" /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F"[:.]" '{ printf "%.1f", $2 / 1000 }'`
+	egrep -i -m 1 "^cpu MHz|^clock|^bogomips" /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F"[:.]" '{ printf "\005{= cW}%.1fGHz\005{-} ", $2 / 1000 }'
 fi
-
-[ -n "$speed" ] && printf "\005{= cW}%sGHz\005{-} " $speed
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index be684187..a27b446c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ byobu (2.12) unreleased; urgency=low
     bin/mem_available, byobu-status: drop grepping of status config file,
     source it instead, should improve performance
   * bin/reboot-required: don't exit 1 when a reboot is not required
-  * bin/cpu-freq: drop "cat" and just use awk, performance improvement
+  * bin/cpu-freq: drop "cat" and just use awk, don't printf twice,
+    performance improvements
 
- -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:27:35 -0500
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:13 -0500
 
 byobu (2.11-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low