diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/maint.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/maint.exp
index f444018..cf60230 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/maint.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/maint.exp
@@ -213,12 +213,13 @@ gdb_test "maint print psymbols" \
 
 if { ! $have_gdb_index } {
     set psymbols_output [standard_output_file psymbols_output]
+    set psymbols_output_re [escape_regex_chars $psymbols_output]
     send_gdb "maint print psymbols $psymbols_output ${srcdir}/${subdir}/${srcfile}\n"
     gdb_expect  {
-	-re "^maint print psymbols $psymbols_output \[^\n\]*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	-re "^maint print psymbols $psymbols_output_re \[^\n\]*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 	    send_gdb "shell ls $psymbols_output\n"
 	    gdb_expect {
-		-re "$psymbols_output\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+		-re "$psymbols_output_re\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 		    # We want this grep to be as specific as possible,
 		    # so it's less likely to match symbol file names in
 		    # psymbols_output.  Yes, this actually happened;
@@ -253,12 +254,13 @@ gdb_test "maint print msymbols" \
 
 
 set msymbols_output [standard_output_file msymbols_output]
+set msymbols_output_re [escape_regex_chars $msymbols_output]
 send_gdb "maint print msymbols $msymbols_output ${binfile}\n"
 gdb_expect  {
-    -re "^maint print msymbols $msymbols_output \[^\n\]*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+    -re "^maint print msymbols $msymbols_output_re \[^\n\]*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 	send_gdb "shell ls $msymbols_output\n"
 	gdb_expect {
-	    -re "$msymbols_output\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    -re "$msymbols_output_re\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 		send_gdb "shell grep factorial $msymbols_output\n"
 		gdb_expect {
 		    -re "\\\[ *$decimal\\\] \[tT\]\[ \t\]+$hex \\.?factorial.*$gdb_prompt $" {
@@ -331,12 +333,13 @@ gdb_test "maint print symbols" \
 # for GNU libc.
 
 set symbols_output [standard_output_file symbols_output]
+set symbols_output_re [escape_regex_chars $symbols_output]
 send_gdb "maint print symbols $symbols_output ${srcdir}/${subdir}/${srcfile}\n"
 gdb_expect  {
-    -re "^maint print symbols $symbols_output \[^\n\]*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+    -re "^maint print symbols $symbols_output_re \[^\n\]*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 	send_gdb "shell ls $symbols_output\n"
 	gdb_expect {
-	    -re "$symbols_output\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    -re "$symbols_output_re\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 		# See comments for `maint print psymbols'.
 		send_gdb "shell grep 'main(.*block' $symbols_output\n"
 		gdb_expect {
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.stabs/weird.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.stabs/weird.exp
index 73f8b52..2e0ceaf 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.stabs/weird.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.stabs/weird.exp
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir
 
 set binfile [gdb_remote_download host ${binfile} \
 		 [standard_output_file object.o]]
+set binfile_re [escape_regex_chars $binfile]
 send_gdb "file $binfile\n"
 # If $binfile is very long, a \r (but not a \n) will echo in the
 # middle of the echo of the command.  So to match the echo, we
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ gdb_expect 60 {
 	send_gdb "y\n"
 	exp_continue
     }
-    -re "^Reading symbols from .*$binfile\\.\\.\\.done\.(|\r\nUsing host libthread_db library .*libthread_db.so.*\\.)\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+    -re "^Reading symbols from .*$binfile_re\\.\\.\\.done\.(|\r\nUsing host libthread_db library .*libthread_db.so.*\\.)\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
 	pass "weirdx.o read without error"
     }
     -re ".*$gdb_prompt $" {
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index 19a4ea8..0f11147 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -123,6 +123,27 @@ set inferior_exited_re "(\\\[Inferior \[0-9\]+ \\(.*\\) exited)"
 ### Only procedures should come after this point.
 
 #
+# escape_regex_chars -- escape metacharacters in literal string,
+# so it can be used safely in a regular expression.
+#
+proc escape_regex_chars { line } {
+    return [string map {"^" "\\^"
+			"$" "\\$"
+			"(" "\\("
+			")" "\\)"
+			"[" "\\["
+			"]" "\\]"
+			"{" "\\{"
+			"}" "\\}"
+			"." "\\."
+			"\\" "\\\\"
+			"?" "\\?"
+			"+" "\\+"
+			"*" "\\*"
+			"|" "\\|"} $line]
+}
+
+#
 # gdb_version -- extract and print the version number of GDB
 #
 proc default_gdb_version {} {
