diff --git a/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1 b/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1
index 72afb3903c5..b245631fdae 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The following is an example of a shell pipeline which uses the
 option.
 It will print a report of all ELF binaries in the current directory,
 which link against libc.so.6:
-.Dl "find . -type f | xargs -n1 file -F " " | grep ELF | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs ldd -f '%A %o\en' | grep libc.so.6"
+.Dl "find . -type f | xargs -n1 file -F ' ' | grep ELF | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs ldd -f '%A %o\en' | grep libc.so.6"
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr ld 1 ,
 .Xr nm 1 ,