diff --git a/tests/md/test-list-filesystems.sh b/tests/md/test-list-filesystems.sh
index 5ef34b21e..934e44063 100755
--- a/tests/md/test-list-filesystems.sh
+++ b/tests/md/test-list-filesystems.sh
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ expected="/dev/sda1: ext3
 # Check the output of list-filesystems
 if [ "$(cat list-fs.output)" != "$expected" ]; then
     echo "$0: error: output of list-filesystems did not match expected output"
-    printf "%s\n" "$output"
+    cat list-fs.output
     exit 1;
 fi