diff --git a/redis-shutdown b/redis-shutdown
index 45d6e8f..fdb14ea 100644
--- a/redis-shutdown
+++ b/redis-shutdown
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-#! /bin/bash
+#!/bin/bash
 #
 # Wrapper to close properly redis and sentinel
-test x"REDIS_DEBUG" != x && set -x
+test x"$REDIS_DEBUG" != x && set -x
 
 REDIS_CLI=/usr/bin/redis-cli