diff --git a/lustre/tests/sanity.sh b/lustre/tests/sanity.sh
index d65271a33a47222137907e931a91d6ce252df44d..d278a5d649e628e46da5d9b83127682f5cc88836 100644
--- a/lustre/tests/sanity.sh
+++ b/lustre/tests/sanity.sh
@@ -3489,8 +3489,8 @@ test_102c() {
 	$RUNAS $GETSTRIPE -v $testfile2 > $tmp_file
 	local stripe_size=`grep "size"  $tmp_file| awk '{print $2}'`
 	local stripe_count=`grep "count"  $tmp_file| awk '{print $2}'`
-	[ $stripe_size -eq 65536 ] || error "stripe size $stripe_size != 65536"
-	[ $stripe_count -eq 2 ] || error "stripe count $stripe_count != 2"
+	[ "$stripe_size" -eq 65536 ] || error "stripe size $stripe_size != 65536"
+	[ "$stripe_count" -eq 2 ] || error "stripe count $stripe_count != 2"
 }
 run_test 102c "non-root getfattr/setfattr for lustre.lov EAs ==========="