diff --git a/examples/blob/cli/README.md b/examples/blob/cli/README.md
index 5ec4a9fe7..c457ad4e9 100644
--- a/examples/blob/cli/README.md
+++ b/examples/blob/cli/README.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ script lines will simply be skipped, otherwise the tool will exit if
 it runs into an invalid line (ie './blobcli -T test.bs ignore`).
 
 Sample test/bs file:
-~~{.sh}
+~~~{.sh}
 # this is a comment
 -i
 -s bs
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ Sample test/bs file:
 -s $B0
 -s $B1
 -s bs
-~~
+~~~