diff --git a/bin/migrateDB.ts b/bin/migrateDB.ts
index d1b373289..dcedf71a1 100644
--- a/bin/migrateDB.ts
+++ b/bin/migrateDB.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import settings from 'ep_etherpad-lite/node/utils/Settings';
 
 
 // file1 = source, file2 = target
-// pnpm run migrateDB --file1 <db1.json> --file2 <db2.json>
+// pnpm run --filter bin migrateDB --file1 <db1.json> --file2 <db2.json>
 const arg = process.argv.slice(2);
 
 if (arg.length != 4) {
-  console.error('Wrong number of arguments!. Call with pnpm run migrateDB --file1 source.json target.json')
+  console.error('Wrong number of arguments!. Call with pnpm run --filter bin migrateDB --file1 source.json target.json')
   process.exit(1)
 }
 
diff --git a/doc/cli.md b/doc/cli.md
index b80191e14..59f2c3ed2 100644
--- a/doc/cli.md
+++ b/doc/cli.md
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ In this example we migrate from the old dirty db to the new rustydb engine. So w
 
 
 After that we need to move the data from dirty to rustydb.
-Therefore, we call `pnpm run migrateDB --file1 test1.json --file2 test2.json` with these two files in our root directories. After some time the data should be copied over to the new database.
+Therefore, we call `pnpm run --filter bin migrateDB --file1 test1.json --file2 test2.json` with these two files in our root directories. After some time the data should be copied over to the new database.