diff --git a/HowtoMySQL.md b/HowtoMySQL.md
index 1cefd4a0..909b4adf 100644
--- a/HowtoMySQL.md
+++ b/HowtoMySQL.md
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ grep CHARSET= *txt
 
 for file in *.txt; do
    tablename=$(basename $file .txt)
-   echo "LOAD DATA INFILE '$PWD/$file' INTO TABLE $tablename" CHARACTER SET utf8 | mysql $db
+   echo "LOAD DATA INFILE '$PWD/$file' INTO TABLE \`$tablename\`" CHARACTER SET utf8 | mysql $db
 done
 ~~~