diff --git a/tests/scripts/features/escape b/tests/scripts/features/escape
index 9b2adb5c..8c2b8cea 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/features/escape
+++ b/tests/scripts/features/escape
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ Make sure that escaping of '#' works.
 Make sure that backslash before non-special characters are kept.";
 
 
-close(MAKEFILE);
-
-
 # TEST 1
 
 run_make_test('