diff --git a/src/script_opt/CPP/maint/find-test-files.sh b/src/script_opt/CPP/maint/find-test-files.sh
index 642b438d31..bf848db4ec 100755
--- a/src/script_opt/CPP/maint/find-test-files.sh
+++ b/src/script_opt/CPP/maint/find-test-files.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
 find ../testing/btest -type f |
+    grep -v '\.tmp/' |
     xargs grep -E -l '@TEST' |
     xargs grep -E -l '^[ 	]*(event|print)' |
     xargs grep -E -c 'REQUIRES.*CPP.*((!=.*1)|(==.*0))' |