diff --git a/website/source/docs/agent/encryption.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/agent/encryption.html.markdown
index 174a2aab4e..5671628b8b 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/agent/encryption.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/agent/encryption.html.markdown
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ With that key, you can enable encryption on the agent. You can verify
 encryption is enabled because the output will include "Encrypted: true".
 
 ```
-$ consul agent -data=/tmp/consul -encrypt=cg8StVXbQJ0gPvMd9o7yrg==
+$ cat encrypt.json
+{"encrypt": "cg8StVXbQJ0gPvMd9o7yrg=="}
+
+$ consul agent -data=/tmp/consul -config-file encrypt.json
 ==> Starting Consul agent...
 ==> Starting Consul agent RPC...
 ==> Consul agent running!