diff --git a/chapter05/adjusting.xml b/chapter05/adjusting.xml
index 24a58c8ac..b97669497 100644
--- a/chapter05/adjusting.xml
+++ b/chapter05/adjusting.xml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ their length):</para>
 
 <!-- && used to ease copy and pasting -->
 <screen><userinput>GCC_INCLUDEDIR=`dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/include &amp;&amp;
-find ${GCC_INCLUDEDIR}/* -maxdepth 0 -xtype d -exec rm -rf '{}' \; &amp;&amp;
+find ${GCC_INCLUDEDIR}/* -maxdepth 0 -xtype d -exec rm -rvf '{}' \; &amp;&amp;
 rm -vf `grep -l "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" ${GCC_INCLUDEDIR}/*` &amp;&amp;
 unset GCC_INCLUDEDIR</userinput></screen>