diff --git a/spec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb b/spec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb
index db5a33a91a..2816618b0f 100644
--- a/spec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb
+++ b/spec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb
@@ -189,7 +189,11 @@ class MSpecScript
     end
 
     patterns.each do |pattern|
-      expanded = File.expand_path(pattern)
+      begin
+        expanded = File.realpath(pattern)
+      rescue Errno::ENOENT
+        next
+      end
       if File.file?(expanded) && expanded.end_with?('.rb')
         return [expanded]
       elsif File.directory?(expanded)