diff --git a/HowtoMySQL.md b/HowtoMySQL.md
index 099848df..1cefd4a0 100644
--- a/HowtoMySQL.md
+++ b/HowtoMySQL.md
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ done
 grep CHARSET= *txt
 
 for file in *.txt; do
-   tablename=`basename $file .txt` #tablename=${file%.*}
+   tablename=$(basename $file .txt)
    echo "LOAD DATA INFILE '$PWD/$file' INTO TABLE $tablename" CHARACTER SET utf8 | mysql $db
 done
 ~~~