diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.utils.exec/bro..stdout b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.utils.exec/bro..stdout
index 3cfdaafb4c..043e1d4baa 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.utils.exec/bro..stdout
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.utils.exec/bro..stdout
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+test2, [exit_code=1, signal_exit=F, stdout=[here's something on stdout, some more stdout, last stdout], stderr=[and some stderr, more stderr, last stderr], files=<uninitialized>]
 test1, [exit_code=0, signal_exit=F, stdout=[done, exit, stop], stderr=<uninitialized>, files={
 [out1] = [insert text here, and here],
 [out2] = [insert more text here, and there]
 }]
-test2, [exit_code=1, signal_exit=F, stdout=[here's something on stdout, some more stdout, last stdout], stderr=[and some stderr, more stderr, last stderr], files=<uninitialized>]
 test4, [exit_code=0, signal_exit=F, stdout=[hibye], stderr=<uninitialized>, files=<uninitialized>]
+test5, [exit_code=0, signal_exit=F, stdout=<uninitialized>, stderr=<uninitialized>, files={
+[out4] = [test],
+[out3] = []
+}]
diff --git a/testing/btest/scripts/base/utils/exec.test b/testing/btest/scripts/base/utils/exec.test
index 33ba10f97a..389527bcfc 100644
--- a/testing/btest/scripts/base/utils/exec.test
+++ b/testing/btest/scripts/base/utils/exec.test
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ function check_exit_condition()
 	{
 	c += 1;
 
-	if ( c == 3 )
+	if ( c == 4 )
 		terminate();
 	}
 
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ event bro_init()
 	# Not sure of a portable way to test signals yet.
 	#test_cmd("test3", [$cmd="bash ../suicide.sh"]);
 	test_cmd("test4", [$cmd="bash ../stdin.sh", $stdin="hibye"]);
+	test_cmd("test5", [$cmd="bash ../empty_file.sh",
+	                   $read_files=set("out3", "out4")]);
 	}
 
 @TEST-END-FILE
@@ -73,3 +75,9 @@ echo "nope"
 read -r line
 echo "$line"
 @TEST-END-FILE
+
+@TEST-START-FILE empty_file.sh
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+touch out3
+echo "test" > out4
+@TEST-END-FILE