diff --git a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/talos/ConfigMap-talos-prune-script.yaml b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/talos/ConfigMap-talos-prune-script.yaml
index b6d5ed463..5bf7ace92 100644
--- a/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/talos/ConfigMap-talos-prune-script.yaml
+++ b/clusters/cl01tl/manifests/talos/ConfigMap-talos-prune-script.yaml
@@ -19,14 +19,13 @@ data:
     echo " ";
     echo ">> Configured Date Range is $(date -u -d @${DATE_RANGE_SECONDS} +"%j days, %H hours, %M minutes")";
     echo ">> Backups prior to '$DATE_RANGE' will be removed";
-    echo " ";
-    echo ">> Backups to be removed:";
-    $FILES=$(s3cmd ls --no-check-certificate ${BUCKET}/cl01tl/etcd/ |
-        awk -v file_match="$FILE_MATCH" '$4 < file_match {print $4}' |
-        grep . | sort -u);
-    echo "$FILES"
+    FILES=$(s3cmd ls --no-check-certificate ${BUCKET}/cl01tl/etcd/ |
+        awk -v file_match="$FILE_MATCH" '$4 < file_match {print $4}');
 
     if [ -n "${FILES}" ]; then
+        echo " ";
+        echo ">> Backups to be removed:";
+        echo "$FILES"
         echo " ";
         echo ">> Deleting ...";
         $FILES | while read file; do
@@ -36,6 +35,9 @@ data:
                 echo ">> Detected error, will send message to ntfy";
             fi;
         done;
+    else
+        echo " ";
+        echo ">> No backups to remove";
     fi;
 
     if [ "$ERROR" = "true" ]; then