diff --git a/guides/source/command_line.md b/guides/source/command_line.md
index e72bc81766af0241fc91235fb25e939a0360d05e..713c91d1677dd08c043d75bc14c794ec679c0a0d 100644
--- a/guides/source/command_line.md
+++ b/guides/source/command_line.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ There are a few commands that are absolutely critical to your everyday usage of
 * `rails dbconsole`
 * `rails new app_name`
 
-All commands can run with ```-h or --help``` to list more information.
+All commands can run with `-h` or `--help` to list more information.
 
 Let's create a simple Rails application to step through each of these commands in context.
 
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ Rake is Ruby Make, a standalone Ruby utility that replaces the Unix utility 'mak
 
 You can get a list of Rake tasks available to you, which will often depend on your current directory, by typing `rake --tasks`. Each task has a description, and should help you find the thing you need.
 
-To get the full backtrace for running rake task you can pass the option ```--trace``` to command line, for example ```rake db:create --trace```.
+To get the full backtrace for running rake task you can pass the option `--trace` to command line, for example `rake db:create --trace`.
 
 ```bash
 $ bin/rake --tasks
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ rake middleware         # Prints out your Rack middleware stack
 rake tmp:clear          # Clear session, cache, and socket files from tmp/ (narrow w/ tmp:sessions:clear, tmp:cache:clear, tmp:sockets:clear)
 rake tmp:create         # Creates tmp directories for sessions, cache, sockets, and pids
 ```
-INFO: You can also use ```rake -T```  to get the list of tasks.
+INFO: You can also use `rake -T`  to get the list of tasks.
 
 ### `about`