diff --git a/maintainers/flake-module.nix b/maintainers/flake-module.nix
index 3006d5e30..261da1766 100644
--- a/maintainers/flake-module.nix
+++ b/maintainers/flake-module.nix
@@ -507,7 +507,6 @@
             ''^scripts/install-nix-from-closure\.sh$''
             ''^scripts/install-systemd-multi-user\.sh$''
             ''^src/nix/get-env\.sh$''
-            ''^tests/functional/bash-profile\.sh$''
             ''^tests/functional/binary-cache-build-remote\.sh$''
             ''^tests/functional/binary-cache\.sh$''
             ''^tests/functional/brotli\.sh$''
diff --git a/tests/functional/bash-profile.sh b/tests/functional/bash-profile.sh
index 6cfa5bd9c..4228d4a20 100755
--- a/tests/functional/bash-profile.sh
+++ b/tests/functional/bash-profile.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 source common.sh
 
-sed -e "s|@localstatedir@|$TEST_ROOT/profile-var|g" -e "s|@coreutils@|$coreutils|g" < ../../scripts/nix-profile.sh.in > $TEST_ROOT/nix-profile.sh
+sed -e "s|@localstatedir@|$TEST_ROOT/profile-var|g" -e "s|@coreutils@|$coreutils|g" < ../../scripts/nix-profile.sh.in > "$TEST_ROOT"/nix-profile.sh
 
 user=$(whoami)
-rm -rf $TEST_HOME $TEST_ROOT/profile-var
-mkdir -p $TEST_HOME
+rm -rf "$TEST_HOME" "$TEST_ROOT/profile-var"
+mkdir -p "$TEST_HOME"
 USER=$user $SHELL -e -c ". $TEST_ROOT/nix-profile.sh; set"
 USER=$user $SHELL -e -c ". $TEST_ROOT/nix-profile.sh" # test idempotency