diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-save.1.md.in b/docs/source/markdown/podman-save.1.md.in
index f9719868d1..72a8932a7b 100644
--- a/docs/source/markdown/podman-save.1.md.in
+++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman-save.1.md.in
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ $ podman save -o oci-alpine.tar --format oci-archive alpine
 ```
 
 ```
-$ podman save --compress --format oci-dir -o alp-dir alpine
+$ podman save --compress --format docker-dir -o alp-dir alpine
 Getting image source signatures
 Copying blob sha256:2fdfe1cd78c20d05774f0919be19bc1a3e4729bce219968e4188e7e0f1af679d
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