diff --git a/sbin/md5/md5.1 b/sbin/md5/md5.1
--- a/sbin/md5/md5.1
+++ b/sbin/md5/md5.1
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
 .Pa /boot/loader.conf
 in the example above.
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
-$ md5 -c digest /boot/loader.conf
+$ md5sum -c digest /boot/loader.conf
 /boot/loader.conf: OK
 .Ed
 .Pp