diff --git a/toCOPY/lst_utils.sh b/toCOPY/lst_utils.sh
index a3bb86c3..e6a7aee3 100644
--- a/toCOPY/lst_utils.sh
+++ b/toCOPY/lst_utils.sh
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ merge_lst () {
     # Grep to ignore empty lines or whole line comments.
     # Sed to drop any trailing comments.
     # Side effect of grep over cat is adding any missing EOL.
-    layers=$(grep -h -v -e '^$' -e '^[ \t]*#' ${layer_cfgs} | sed -e 's/[ \t]*#.*$//'} | sort --unique)
+    layers=$(grep -h -v -e '^$' -e '^[ \t]*#' ${layer_cfgs} | sed -e 's/[ \t]*#.*$//' | sort --unique)
     layers+=" mock"
 
     (