diff --git a/doc/user-guide-admin/source/cli_nova_migrate.rst b/doc/user-guide-admin/source/cli_nova_migrate.rst
index f85260656e..aebed8a0b3 100644
--- a/doc/user-guide-admin/source/cli_nova_migrate.rst
+++ b/doc/user-guide-admin/source/cli_nova_migrate.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ target host.
 
      # Migrate the VM to an alternate hypervisor
      echo -n "Migrating instance to alternate host"
-     $VM_ID=$1
+     VM_ID=$1
      nova migrate $VM_ID
      VM_OUTPUT=`nova show $VM_ID`
      VM_STATUS=`echo "$VM_OUTPUT" | grep status | awk '{print $4}'`