diff --git a/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/bin/pulsar_pipeline.py b/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/bin/pulsar_pipeline.py
index 988d03222f7e5eef74621d8ac39aacc3eabc99b7..87dc66fad9631a7c16717d6226acf5d50a4e03c7 100755
--- a/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/bin/pulsar_pipeline.py
+++ b/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/bin/pulsar_pipeline.py
@@ -139,6 +139,12 @@ class pulsar_pipeline(control):
 
         self.pulsar_parms = self.parset.makeSubset(self.parset.fullModuleName('Pulsar') + '.')
         pulsar_parset = os.path.join(parset_dir, "Pulsar.parset")
+
+        if self.globalfs:
+          # patch for Pulp in case of DOCKER
+          for (k in self.pulsar_parms.keys() if k.endswith("_extra_opts")):
+            self.pulsar_parms.replace(k, self.pulsar_parms[k].getString().replace(" ","\\\\ "))
+
         self.pulsar_parms.writeFile(pulsar_parset)
             
         self.logger.debug("Processing: %s" %