diff --git a/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.12/bbsim-tests.groovy b/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.12/bbsim-tests.groovy
index 5372846..825edd3 100644
--- a/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.12/bbsim-tests.groovy
+++ b/jjb/pipeline/voltha/voltha-2.12/bbsim-tests.groovy
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
 
       # readarray -t logs < <(find . -name '*-combined.log' -print)
       declare -i count=0
-      count=$(find . -name '*-combined.log' -print | wc -l)
+      count=\$(find . -name '*-combined.log' -print | wc -l)
       if [[ $count -gt 0 ]]; then
           echo '** Bundle combined log'
           gzip "${logs[@]}"