diff --git a/coccinelle/xsprintf.cocci b/coccinelle/xsprintf.cocci
index 401216ad72..660a35e3f4 100644
--- a/coccinelle/xsprintf.cocci
+++ b/coccinelle/xsprintf.cocci
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 @@
+position p : script:python() { not p[0].file.startswith("man/") };
 expression e, fmt;
 expression list vaargs;
 @@
-- snprintf(e, sizeof(e), fmt, vaargs);
+- snprintf@p(e, sizeof(e), fmt, vaargs);
 + xsprintf(e, fmt, vaargs);