diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index 3f0522ea0f1d64a634c3bd892071e91cadd20ac6..61b5be47fbe48ea1cf26c2e3de0cfcd50083f881 100644
--- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -680,8 +680,6 @@ Example:
     out:
         error_propagate(errp, err);
     }
-    $ python scripts/qapi-commands.py --output-dir="qapi-generated" \
-    --prefix="example-" example-schema.json
     $ cat qapi-generated/example-qapi-visit.h
 [Uninteresting stuff omitted...]