diff --git a/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc b/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc
index 3234b6ae226f5..3a3616ac0e7ef 100644
--- a/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin -h
 .Running as root
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 If Elasticsearch was installed using the deb or rpm package then run
-`/usr/share/elasticsearch-plugin` as `root` so it can write to the appropriate files on disk.
+`/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin` as `root` so it can write to the appropriate files on disk.
 Otherwise run `bin/elasticsearch-plugin` as the user that owns all of the Elasticsearch
 files.
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