diff --git a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md
index 2e32ce31eca..ddbe26389fd 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Rustdoc only supports HTML output, and so this flag is redundant today.
 Using this flag looks like this:
 
 ```bash
-$ rustdoc src/lib.rs -o target\\doc
-$ rustdoc src/lib.rs --output target\\doc
+$ rustdoc src/lib.rs -o target/doc
+$ rustdoc src/lib.rs --output target/doc
 ```
 
 By default, `rustdoc`'s output appears in a directory named `doc` in
diff --git a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/what-is-rustdoc.md b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/what-is-rustdoc.md
index bbcacb7f3d5..adcebc832bc 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/what-is-rustdoc.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/what-is-rustdoc.md
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ $ cargo doc
 Internally, this calls out to `rustdoc` like this:
 
 ```bash
-$ rustdoc --crate-name docs srclib.rs -o <path>\docs\target\doc -L
-dependency=<path>docs\target\debug\deps
+$ rustdoc --crate-name docs src/lib.rs -o <path>/docs/target/doc -L
+dependency=<path>/docs/target/debug/deps
 ```
 
 You can see this with `cargo doc --verbose`.
@@ -128,4 +128,4 @@ Cargo currently does not understand standalone Markdown files, unfortunately.
 ## Summary
 
 This covers the simplest use-cases of `rustdoc`. The rest of this book will
-explain all of the options that `rustdoc` has, and how to use them.
\ No newline at end of file
+explain all of the options that `rustdoc` has, and how to use them.