diff --git a/tests/status.err b/tests/status.err
index d2b89daf6..2dc6956a2 100644
--- a/tests/status.err
+++ b/tests/status.err
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<W> fish: An error occurred while redirecting file '/'
+<W> fish: An error occurred while redirecting file '.'
 open: Is a directory
 status: Invalid combination of options,
 you cannot do both 'is-interactive' and 'is-login' in the same invocation
diff --git a/tests/status.in b/tests/status.in
index 3049e9184..ee16ecdad 100644
--- a/tests/status.in
+++ b/tests/status.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ end
 
 # Issue #1728
 # Bad file redirection on a block causes `status --is-block` to return 0 forever.
-begin; end >/ # / is a directory, it can't be opened for writing
+begin; end >. # . is a directory, it can't be opened for writing
 status -b
 and echo '"status -b" unexpectedly returned true after bad redirect on a begin block'