diff --git a/examples/guestbook/v1beta3/README.md b/examples/guestbook/v1beta3/README.md
index 98d05606b1c..ab95f85495d 100644
--- a/examples/guestbook/v1beta3/README.md
+++ b/examples/guestbook/v1beta3/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ The web front end interacts with the redis master via javascript redis API calls
 
 The v1beta3 API is not enabled by default. The kube-apiserver process needs to run with the --runtime_config=api/v1beta3 argument. Use the following command to enable it:
 ````
-$sudo sed -i 's|KUBE_API_ARGS="|KUBE_API_ARGS="--runtime_config=api/v1beta3 |' /etc/kubernetes/apiserver
+sudo sed -i 's|KUBE_API_ARGS="|KUBE_API_ARGS="--runtime_config=api/v1beta3 |' /etc/kubernetes/apiserver
 ````