diff --git a/build b/build
index dba50388b..9bf93d61e 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export CGO_ENABLED=1
 echo "Building ${NAME}..."
 # clean the cache since cgo isn't correctly handled by gocache. Test to see if this version
 # of go supports caching before trying to clear the cache
-go clean -help 2>&1 | grep -F '[-cache]' >/dev/null && go clean -cache -testcache internal
+go clean -help 2>&1 | grep -F '[-cache]' >/dev/null && go clean -cache -testcache
 go build -buildmode=pie -ldflags "${GLDFLAGS}" -o ${BIN_PATH}/${NAME} ${REPO_PATH}/internal
 
 NAME="ignition-validate"