diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Pre-process the extract with the car profile and start a routing engine HTTP ser
 
     docker run -t -v $(pwd):/data osrm/osrm-backend osrm-extract -p /opt/car.lua /data/berlin-latest.osm.pbf
 
-The flag `-v $(pwd):/data` creates the directory `/data` inside the docker container, and makes the current working directory `$(pwd)` available there. The file `/data/berlin-latest.osm.pbf` inside the container is referring to `berlin-latest.osm.pbf` on the host.
+The flag `-v $(pwd):/data` creates the directory `/data` inside the docker container and makes the current working directory `$(pwd)` available there. The file `/data/berlin-latest.osm.pbf` inside the container is referring to `$(pwd)/berlin-latest.osm.pbf` on the host.
 
     docker run -t -v $(pwd):/data osrm/osrm-backend osrm-partition /data/berlin-latest.osrm
     docker run -t -v $(pwd):/data osrm/osrm-backend osrm-customize /data/berlin-latest.osrm