diff --git a/testsuite/ps.test/ps_sched_batch.exp b/testsuite/ps.test/ps_sched_batch.exp
index 1791064d..3266e5ad 100644
--- a/testsuite/ps.test/ps_sched_batch.exp
+++ b/testsuite/ps.test/ps_sched_batch.exp
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ spawn $schedbatch 18
 
 set test "ps SCHED_BATCH scheduler"
 spawn $ps --no-header -o comm,cls,nice -a
-expect_pass "$test" "\\s+test-schedbatch\\s+B\\s+18"
+expect_pass "$test" "(?n)^test-schedbatch\\s+B\\s+18\\r?\$"