diff --git a/docs/reference/search/benchmark.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search/benchmark.asciidoc
index 13b9dca0c04..165e2698a38 100644
--- a/docs/reference/search/benchmark.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/search/benchmark.asciidoc
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ measuring their performance relative to one another.
 
 [IMPORTANT]
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-To be eligible to run benchmarks nodes must be started with: *--node.bench=true*. This is just a way to mark certain nodes as "executors". Searches will still be distributed out to the cluster in the normal manner. This is primarily a defensive measure to prevent production nodes from being flooded with potentially many requests. Typically one would start a single node with this setting and submit benchmark requests to it.
+To be eligible to run benchmarks nodes must be started with: `--node.bench true`. This is just a way to mark certain nodes as "executors". Searches will still be distributed out to the cluster in the normal manner. This is primarily a defensive measure to prevent production nodes from being flooded with potentially many requests. Typically one would start a single node with this setting and submit benchmark requests to it.
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 [source,bash]
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-$ ./bin/elasticsearch --node.bench=true
+$ ./bin/elasticsearch --node.bench true
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 Benchmarking a search request is as simple as executing the following command: