diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3bfc38f4ee1d7ed0a1e3e73cfcbf3d98f8b6b20..5e53b3027b906bea1688a24cfc6fc6f0d1965de3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ It is build around cURL from [https://curl.se/](https://curl.se/).
 
 To check if your system provided `curl` will work you can test it on the cli like this:
 
-- Linux `$ ./curl https://thl-cmk.hopto.org -s -o /dev/null -w %{json}`
+- Linux `$ curl https://thl-cmk.hopto.org -s -o /dev/null -w %{json}`
 - Windows `C:\>curl https://thl-cmk.hopto.org -s -o NUL -w %{json}`
 
 The output should look like this