diff --git a/src/os/shell.zig b/src/os/shell.zig
index a6f23e843..7f3254d87 100644
--- a/src/os/shell.zig
+++ b/src/os/shell.zig
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ const Writer = std.Io.Writer;
 /// Writer that escapes characters that shells treat specially to reduce the
 /// risk of injection attacks or other such weirdness. Specifically excludes
 /// linefeeds so that they can be used to delineate lists of file paths.
-///
-/// T should be a Zig type that follows the `std.Io.Writer` interface.
 pub const ShellEscapeWriter = struct {
     writer: Writer,
     child: *Writer,
@@ -33,7 +31,7 @@ pub const ShellEscapeWriter = struct {
         var count: usize = 0;
         for (data[0 .. data.len - 1]) |chunk| try self.writeEscaped(chunk, &count);
 
-        for (0..splat) |_| try self.writeEscaped(data[data.len], &count);
+        for (0..splat) |_| try self.writeEscaped(data[data.len - 1], &count);
         return count;
     }