diff --git a/test/builtin_glob_archive.py b/test/builtin_glob_archive.py
index dda50cdb6e..c3be4209a7 100644
--- a/test/builtin_glob_archive.py
+++ b/test/builtin_glob_archive.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def test_glob_archive(archives, glob, expected, sort_results = False):
                   ["$archive1(b$obj)"])
 
 ## glob wildcards:2
-test_glob_archive([archive1], '[ GLOB_ARCHIVE $archive1 : "\\b?match[\.]*" ]',
+test_glob_archive([archive1], '[ GLOB_ARCHIVE $archive1 : "\\b?match[.]*" ]',
                   ["$archive1(b_match$obj)"])
 
 ## glob wildcards:3