diff --git a/lisp/eshell/esh-proc.el b/lisp/eshell/esh-proc.el
index 6561561440e..e7e91f08741 100644
--- a/lisp/eshell/esh-proc.el
+++ b/lisp/eshell/esh-proc.el
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ Used only on systems which do not support async subprocesses.")
     ;; future, remember to remove `tramp-remote-path' above, too.)
     (when (file-remote-p default-directory)
       (push (concat "PATH=" real-path) process-environment)
-      (setq tramp-remote-path (eshell-get-path)))
+      (setq tramp-remote-path (eshell-get-path t)))
     ;; MS-Windows needs special setting of encoding/decoding, because
     ;; (a) non-ASCII text in command-line arguments needs to be
     ;; encoded in the system's codepage; and (b) because many Windows