diff --git a/tests/test1.in b/tests/test1.in
index 41fc71caa..51302c2a3 100644
--- a/tests/test1.in
+++ b/tests/test1.in
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ echo Test 5 $sta
 
 logmsg Verify that we can turn stderr into stdout and then pipe it
 # Note that the order here has historically been unspecified - 'errput' could conceivably appear before 'output'.
-begin ; echo output ; echo errput 1>&2  ; end 2>&1 | tee ../test/temp/tee_test.txt ; cat ../test/temp/tee_test.txt
+begin ; echo output ; echo errput 1>&2  ; end 2>&1 | sort | tee ../test/temp/tee_test.txt ; cat ../test/temp/tee_test.txt
 
 logmsg "Test that trailing ^ doesn't trigger redirection, see #1873"
 echo caret_no_redirect 12345^
diff --git a/tests/test1.out b/tests/test1.out
index 8ac15efc6..6c141412d 100644
--- a/tests/test1.out
+++ b/tests/test1.out
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ Test 5 pass
 
 ####################
 # Verify that we can turn stderr into stdout and then pipe it
-output
 errput
 output
 errput
+output
 
 ####################
 # Test that trailing ^ doesn't trigger redirection, see #1873