diff --git a/content/applications/app_specific/running_postgres.md b/content/applications/app_specific/running_postgres.md
index bd2747dee464c52c1cb1632141ae875f0ed88dfe..77fd824e539a3e2c17f6ae5ad3ad53b9516ed023 100644
--- a/content/applications/app_specific/running_postgres.md
+++ b/content/applications/app_specific/running_postgres.md
@@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ export POSTGRES_USER=$USER
 export POSTGRES_DB=mydb
 export PGDATA=$POSTGRES_HOME/db/data
 export POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=md5
-export POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS="\-\-data-checksums"
-export POSTGRES_PORT=$(shuf -i 2000-65000 -n 1)  
+export POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS="--data-checksums"
+export POSTGRES_PORT=$(shuf -i 2000-65000 -n 1)
+
 echo "Postgres server running on $(hostname) on port $POSTGRES_PORT"
 echo "This job started at $(date +%Y-%m-%dT%T)"
-echo "This job will end at $(squeue \-\-noheader -j $SLURM_JOBID -o %e) (in $(squeue \-\-noheader -j $SLURM_JOBID -o %L))"
+echo "This job will end at $(squeue --noheader -j $SLURM_JOBID -o %e) (in $(squeue --noheader -j $SLURM_JOBID -o %L))"
 module load singularity
 exec singularity run -B $POSTGRES_HOME/db:/var/lib/postgresql -B $POSTGRES_HOME/run:/var/run/postgresql docker://postgres:11 -c "port=$POSTGRES_PORT"
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