diff --git a/docs/patterns/appfactories.rst b/docs/patterns/appfactories.rst
index a76e676f..32fd062b 100644
--- a/docs/patterns/appfactories.rst
+++ b/docs/patterns/appfactories.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ to the factory like this:
 
 .. code-block:: text
 
-    $ flask --app hello:create_app(local_auth=True) run``
+    $ flask --app hello:create_app(local_auth=True) run
 
 Then the ``create_app`` factory in ``myapp`` is called with the keyword
 argument ``local_auth=True``. See :doc:`/cli` for more detail.