diff --git a/bin/tests/system/runtime/long-cmd-line b/bin/tests/system/runtime/long-cmd-line
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e691a71398
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/tests/system/runtime/long-cmd-line
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diff --git a/bin/tests/system/runtime/tests.sh b/bin/tests/system/runtime/tests.sh
index 09c30ad0e7..4a5ee1ea03 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/runtime/tests.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/runtime/tests.sh
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ status=$((status+ret))
 n=$((n+1))
 echo_i "checking that named logs an ellipsis when the command line is larger than 8k bytes ($n)"
 ret=0
-LONG_CMD_LINE=$(yes "-m usage" | head -1000 | tr '\n' ' ')
+LONG_CMD_LINE=$(cat long-cmd-line)
 copy_setports ns2/named-alt7.conf.in "ns2/named-alt7.conf"
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
 (cd ns2 && $NAMED $LONG_CMD_LINE -c "named-alt7.conf" -g > named9.run 2>&1 &)
diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index 9369dabb74..8460b00ed4 100644
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@
 ./bin/tests/system/runtime/README		TXT.BRIEF	2014,2016,2018,2019
 ./bin/tests/system/runtime/clean.sh		SH	2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
 ./bin/tests/system/runtime/ctrl-char-dir-name	X	2019
+./bin/tests/system/runtime/long-cmd-line	X	2019
 ./bin/tests/system/runtime/setup.sh		SH	2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
 ./bin/tests/system/runtime/tests.sh		SH	2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
 ./bin/tests/system/send.pl			PERL	2001,2004,2007,2011,2012,2016,2018,2019