diff --git a/book/05-distributed-git/sections/maintaining.asc b/book/05-distributed-git/sections/maintaining.asc
index c377bb68d..2f9ea8f56 100644
--- a/book/05-distributed-git/sections/maintaining.asc
+++ b/book/05-distributed-git/sections/maintaining.asc
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ The command to do this is `git archive`:
 
 [source,console]
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-$ git archive master --prefix='project/' | gzip > `git describe master`.tar.gz
+$ git archive master --prefix='project/' | gzip > "$(git describe master).tar.gz"
 $ ls *.tar.gz
 v1.6.2-rc1-20-g8c5b85c.tar.gz
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@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ You can also create a zip archive in much the same way, but by passing the `--fo
 
 [source,console]
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-$ git archive master --prefix='project/' --format=zip > `git describe master`.zip
+$ git archive master --prefix='project/' --format=zip > "$(git describe master).zip"
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 You now have a nice tarball and a zip archive of your project release that you can upload to your website or email to people.