diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/tls/managing-tls-in-a-cluster.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/tls/managing-tls-in-a-cluster.md
index 60ccf8e0b6173..95249edd0a6dd 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/tls/managing-tls-in-a-cluster.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/tls/managing-tls-in-a-cluster.md
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ by running the following:
 
 ```console
 $ kubectl get csr my-svc.my-namespace -o jsonpath='{.status.certificate}' \
-    | base64 -d > server.crt
+    | base64 --decode > server.crt
 ```
 
 Now you can use `server.crt` and `server-key.pem` as the keypair to start