diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 95ac23f..a817766 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Replace USER and PASS accordingly.
 sudo apt-get install apache2-utils
 echo $(htpasswd -nbB <USER> "<PASS>") | sed -e s/\\$/\\$\\$/g
 ```
-In `docker/compose/docker-compose.yml`  replace the "<output>" variable with the output of the echo command above.  
+In `docker/compose/docker-compose.yml`  replace the "\<output\>" variable with the output of the echo command above.  
 Then later, when disabling nextcloud-web, uncomment and fill in under traefik middlewares
 regarding the labels of the deb-rust-sncf container.