diff --git a/burrow b/burrow
index d4a9f86..0cacc6c 100755
--- a/burrow
+++ b/burrow
@@ -635,8 +635,8 @@ main () {
   if [ $arg_root -gt 0 ]; then
     # If we don't have a gophermap, create one to avoid
     # accidentally sorting the file on first-time generation
-    if [ ! -f "${config_dir_gopher}/gophermap" ]; then
-      touch "${config_dir_gopher}/gophermap"
+    if [ ! -f "${config_dir_gopher}gophermap" ]; then
+      touch "${config_dir_gopher}gophermap"
     fi
     make_post "" \
        "" \