1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/t/tar3.sh b/t/tar3.sh
index 403ce9916..65997b109 100755
--- a/t/tar3.sh
+++ b/t/tar3.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ $ACLOCAL
 AUTOMAKE_fails
 grep "^configure\.ac:2:.*mutually exclusive" stderr > tar-err
 cat tar-err
-test 1 = `wc -l < tar-err`
+test 1 -eq $(wc -l < tar-err)
 grep "'tar-pax'" tar-err
 grep "'tar-v7'"  tar-err