diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 81f2257..e8c341e 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ repository which name on its own line. This would allow you to easily
 redirect the output of this command sequence to `~/.svn2git/authors` and have
 a very good starting point for your mapping.
 
-    $ svn log --quiet | grep -E "r[0-9]+ \| .+ \|" | cut -d'|' -f2 | sed 's/^ //' | sort | uniq
+    $ svn log --quiet | grep -E "r[0-9]+ \| .+ \|" | cut -d'|' -f2 | sed 's/ //g' | sort | uniq
 
 Or, for a remote URL:
 
-    $ svn log --quiet http://path/to/root/of/project | grep -E "r[0-9]+ \| .+ \|" | cut -d'|' -f2 | sed 's/^ //' | sort | uniq
+    $ svn log --quiet http://path/to/root/of/project | grep -E "r[0-9]+ \| .+ \|" | cut -d'|' -f2 | sed 's/ //g' | sort | uniq
 
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