diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md
index 232b260c53..7fb4fd67bd 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@ will list various options available from etcdctl. For example, you can take a sn
 the endpoint, certificates etc as shown below:
 
 ```shell
-ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=[127.0.0.1:2379] --cacert=<trusted-ca-file> --cert=<cert-file> --key=<key-file> snapshot save <backup-file-location>
+ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=[127.0.0.1:2379] \
+  --cacert=trusted-ca-file --cert=cert-file --key=key-file \
+  snapshot save backup-file-location
 ```
 where `trusted-ca-file`, `cert-file` and `key-file` can be obtained from the description of the etcd Pod.