diff --git a/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/software/containers.md b/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/software/containers.md
index d5b7698ba79bdc991b2e1d737be713278923889c..ffd0acaacd038b559315c9062f451917cd5735dd 100644
--- a/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/software/containers.md
+++ b/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/software/containers.md
@@ -105,10 +105,11 @@ You can create a new custom container on your workstation, if you have root righ
     which is different to the x86 architecture in common computers/laptops. For that you can use
     the [VM Tools](singularity_power9.md).
 
-Creating a container is done by writing a **definition file** and passing it to
+Creating a container is done by writing a definition file, such as `myDefinition.def`, and passing
+it to `singularity` via
 
 ```console
-marie@local$ singularity build myContainer.sif <myDefinition.def>
+marie@local$ singularity build myContainer.sif myDefinition.def
 ```
 
 A definition file contains a bootstrap