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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/config.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/config.py b/lib/spack/spack/config.py
index 7ea89b7c98..8df9e514c3 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/config.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/config.py
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ class Configuration(object):
msg = ('The "{0}" section of the configuration needs to be written'
' to disk, but is currently using a deprecated format. '
'Please update it using:\n\n'
- '\tspack config [--scope=<scope] update {0}\n\n'
+ '\tspack config [--scope=<scope>] update {0}\n\n'
'Note that previous versions of Spack will not be able to '
'use the updated configuration.')
msg = msg.format(section)