diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 78d0c105d..bfc55076e 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ coverage:
 
 lint:
 	$(LUACHECK) -q $$(HGPLAIN= hg files -I '**.lua') prosody prosodyctl
-	@echo $$(sed -n '/^exclude_files/,/^}/p;' .luacheckrc | sed '1d;$d' | wc -l) files ignored
+	@echo $$(sed -n '/^\tlocal exclude_files/,/^}/p;' .luacheckrc | sed '1d;$d' | wc -l) files ignored
 
 util/%.so:
 	$(MAKE) install -C util-src