diff --git a/tests/abuild.bats b/tests/abuild.bats
index fb4103d..92a8e3c 100644
--- a/tests/abuild.bats
+++ b/tests/abuild.bats
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ teardown() {
 	echo "foo" > "$tmpdir"/foo/test.txt
 	cd "$tmpdir"/foo
 	abuild checksum
-	. ./APKBUILD && echo $sha512sums > sums
+	. ./APKBUILD && echo "$sha512sums" > sums
 	cat sums
 	sha512sum -c sums
 }