diff --git a/test/shell/vgimportclone.sh b/test/shell/vgimportclone.sh
index 0a476ec6b..60c833a29 100644
--- a/test/shell/vgimportclone.sh
+++ b/test/shell/vgimportclone.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ vgimportclone --basevgname $vg2 "$dev2"
 # concerned, can only live on a single device. With the last pvscan, we told it
 # that PV from $dev1 now lives on $dev2, but in fact this is not true anymore,
 # since we wrote a different PV over $dev2.
-rm $TESTDIR/etc/.cache
+rm -f $TESTDIR/etc/.cache
 aux notify_lvmetad "$dev2"
 aux notify_lvmetad "$dev1"