diff --git a/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner.go b/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner.go
index 042e8544e6..14df1fa59d 100644
--- a/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner.go
+++ b/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
@@ -78,11 +79,13 @@ func applyFn(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 // generateScripts takes the configuration and creates a script from each inline config
 func generateScripts(d *schema.ResourceData) ([]string, error) {
-	var scripts []string
+	var lines []string
 	for _, l := range d.Get("inline").([]interface{}) {
-		scripts = append(scripts, l.(string))
+		lines = append(lines, l.(string))
 	}
-	return scripts, nil
+	lines = append(lines, "")
+
+	return []string{strings.Join(lines, "\n")}, nil
 }
 
 // collectScripts is used to collect all the scripts we need
diff --git a/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner_test.go b/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner_test.go
index 5508e58dcf..3bbeaca616 100644
--- a/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner_test.go
+++ b/builtin/provisioners/remote-exec/resource_provisioner_test.go
@@ -3,11 +3,8 @@ package remoteexec
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"io"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
-	"reflect"
-
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
@@ -46,8 +43,6 @@ wget http://foobar
 exit 0
 `
 
-var expectedInlineScriptsOut = strings.Split(expectedScriptOut, "\n")
-
 func TestResourceProvider_generateScript(t *testing.T) {
 	p := Provisioner().(*schema.Provisioner)
 	conf := map[string]interface{}{
@@ -63,7 +58,11 @@ func TestResourceProvider_generateScript(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("err: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	if reflect.DeepEqual(out, expectedInlineScriptsOut) {
+	if len(out) != 1 {
+		t.Fatal("expected 1 out")
+	}
+
+	if out[0] != expectedScriptOut {
 		t.Fatalf("bad: %v", out)
 	}
 }
@@ -84,20 +83,18 @@ func TestResourceProvider_CollectScripts_inline(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("err: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	if len(scripts) != 3 {
+	if len(scripts) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("bad: %v", scripts)
 	}
 
-	for i, script := range scripts {
-		var out bytes.Buffer
-		_, err = io.Copy(&out, script)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("err: %v", err)
-		}
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	_, err = io.Copy(&out, scripts[0])
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("err: %v", err)
+	}
 
-		if out.String() != expectedInlineScriptsOut[i] {
-			t.Fatalf("bad: %v", out.String())
-		}
+	if out.String() != expectedScriptOut {
+		t.Fatalf("bad: %v", out.String())
 	}
 }