diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix
index e277617c0ff8..f6f3493002ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/arrow-cpp/default.nix
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ];
   in ''
     ctest -L unittest -V \
-      --exclude-regex '(${builtins.concatStringsSep "|" excludedTests})'
+      --exclude-regex '^(${builtins.concatStringsSep "|" excludedTests})$'
   '');
 
   meta = {