diff --git a/docs/manual/contributing/guidelines.md b/docs/manual/contributing/guidelines.md
index 44b9dd9ee..197d37868 100644
--- a/docs/manual/contributing/guidelines.md
+++ b/docs/manual/contributing/guidelines.md
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ the man page version of the module options looks good:
 
 ``` shell
 $ nix-build -A docs.manPages
-$ man ./result/share/man/man5/home-configuration.nix.5.gz
+$ man ./result/share/man/man5/home-configuration.nix.5
 ```
 
 ## Module Auto-importing {#sec-module-auto-importing}