diff --git a/testsuite/tar.tests b/testsuite/tar.tests
index 16130f9b6..9f7ce1587 100755
--- a/testsuite/tar.tests
+++ b/testsuite/tar.tests
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ optional UNICODE_SUPPORT FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2 FEATURE
 testing "Pax-encoded UTF8 names and symlinks" '\
 tar xvf ../tar.utf8.tar.bz2 2>&1; echo $?
 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-ls -l etc/ssl/certs/* | sed "s:.*etc/:etc/:"
+ls -l etc/ssl/certs/* | sed "s:.*etc/:etc/:" | sort
 unset LANG
 rm -rf etc usr
 ' "\