diff --git a/maintainers/flake-module.nix b/maintainers/flake-module.nix
index 5b743e61d..db232f179 100644
--- a/maintainers/flake-module.nix
+++ b/maintainers/flake-module.nix
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@
             enable = true;
             excludes = [
               # We haven't linted these files yet
-              ''^tests/functional/output-normalization\.sh$''
               ''^tests/functional/parallel\.builder\.sh$''
               ''^tests/functional/parallel\.sh$''
               ''^tests/functional/pass-as-file\.sh$''
diff --git a/tests/functional/output-normalization.sh b/tests/functional/output-normalization.sh
index c55f1b1d1..bd1668db9 100755
--- a/tests/functional/output-normalization.sh
+++ b/tests/functional/output-normalization.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ testNormalization () {
     TODO_NixOS
     clearStore
     outPath=$(nix-build ./simple.nix --no-out-link)
-    test "$(stat -c %Y $outPath)" -eq 1
+    test "$(stat -c %Y "$outPath")" -eq 1
 }
 
 testNormalization