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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defaults:
 To verify everything works you can run Eleventy like this to pass the token as environment variable:
 
 ```
-`TORCHLIGHT_TOKEN=your_token npm run start`
+TORCHLIGHT_TOKEN=your_token npm run start
 ```
 
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