diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
index 4183da033c..28ec9ae77f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -1182,8 +1182,8 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
       to do file name globing.  For example, typing in
       <command>echo *</command> is almost the same as typing in
       <command>ls</command> because the shell takes all the files that
-      match <command>*</command> and puts them on the command line for
-      echo to see.</para>
+      match <literal>*</literal> and puts them on the command line for
+      <command>echo</command> to see.</para>
 
     <para>To prevent the shell from interpreting these special characters,
       they can be escaped from the shell by putting a backslash