diff --git a/src/doc/guide.md b/src/doc/guide.md
index 0ace9ba057a..1a2723980c9 100644
--- a/src/doc/guide.md
+++ b/src/doc/guide.md
@@ -5406,7 +5406,7 @@ fn main() {
 }
 ```
 
-You can have the macros expanded like this: `rustc print.rs --pretty=expanded`, which will
+You can have the macros expanded like this: `rustc --pretty=expanded print.rs`, which will
 give us this huge result:
 
 ```{rust,ignore}