diff --git a/lustre/tests/conf-sanity.sh b/lustre/tests/conf-sanity.sh
index 4212cab2f9afb9e2e17fe6582a7f2f8a9ea56db5..4238ee7652e8a75d64f4d6b21301415a15db57ff 100644
--- a/lustre/tests/conf-sanity.sh
+++ b/lustre/tests/conf-sanity.sh
@@ -482,8 +482,10 @@ test_13() {
         fi
         EXPECTEDMDS1UUID="e_longer_than_31characters_UUID"
         EXPECTEDMDS2UUID="longer_than_31characters_UUID_2"
-        FOUNDMDS1UUID=`awk -F"'" '/<mds uuid=/{print $2}' $XMLCONFIG | sed -n '1p'`
-        FOUNDMDS2UUID=`awk -F"'" '/<mds uuid=/{print $2}' $XMLCONFIG | sed -n '2p'`
+        FOUNDMDS1UUID=`awk -F"'" '/<mds .*uuid=/' $XMLCONFIG | sed -n '1p' \
+                       | sed "s/ /\n\r/g" | awk -F"'" '/uuid=/{print $2}'`
+        FOUNDMDS2UUID=`awk -F"'" '/<mds .*uuid=/' $XMLCONFIG | sed -n '2p' \
+                       | sed "s/ /\n\r/g" | awk -F"'" '/uuid=/{print $2}'`
         if [ $EXPECTEDMDS1UUID != $FOUNDMDS1UUID ]; then
                 echo "Error:expected uuid for mds1: $EXPECTEDMDS1UUID; found: $FOUNDMDS1UUID"
                 return 1