diff --git a/updater b/updater
index 544da10..449ffac 100755
--- a/updater
+++ b/updater
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ exit_code=$?
 log "DEBUG" "Successfully extracted files from data.tar.gz." "$log_file"
 [[ ! $quiet -eq 0 ]] && echo "completed."
 ## etc/ directory only contains a cron daily directory, remove it
-r[[ ! $quiet -eq 0 ]] && m -r "$tmp_path/etc/"
+[[ ! $quiet -eq 0 ]] && m -r "$tmp_path/etc/"
 ## add data.tar.xz to the garbage list
 echo "$tmp_path/data.tar.xz" >> "$garbage"