diff --git a/.github/actions/e2e_cleanup_timeframe/e2e-cleanup.sh b/.github/actions/e2e_cleanup_timeframe/e2e-cleanup.sh
index 102338ea2..95ab04a29 100755
--- a/.github/actions/e2e_cleanup_timeframe/e2e-cleanup.sh
+++ b/.github/actions/e2e_cleanup_timeframe/e2e-cleanup.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ mapfile -td " " database_ids < <(echo "${database_ids[@]}")
 
 echo "[*] downloading terraform state artifacts"
 for id in "${database_ids[@]}"; do
-  if [[ "$id" = *[^[:space:]]* ]]; then
+  if [[ $id == *[^[:space:]]* ]]; then
     echo "    downloading from workflow $id"
     download_tfstate_artifact "$id"
   fi