diff --git a/content/tokio/tutorial/spawning.md b/content/tokio/tutorial/spawning.md
index 4b282870..daee0e63 100644
--- a/content/tokio/tutorial/spawning.md
+++ b/content/tokio/tutorial/spawning.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ First, move the client `SET`/`GET` code from the previous section to an example
 file. This way, we can run it against our server.
 
 ```bash
-$ mkdir -p examples
+$ mkdir examples
 $ mv src/main.rs examples/hello-redis.rs
 ```