diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt/run-ptest
index a069e4543c..ba1e9fc51f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt/run-ptest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-for t in `ls ./*-test`; do
+for t in *-test; do
 	./$t && echo PASS: $t || echo FAIL: $t
 done
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt_11.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt_11.2.0.bb
index 06ba523ada..133e1ae77d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt_11.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/fmt/fmt_11.2.0.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', '-DFMT_TEST=ON', '', d)}"
 
 do_install_ptest(){
-	for t in `ls ${B}/bin/*-test`; do
+	for t in ${B}/bin/*-test; do
 		install $t ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
 	done
 }