diff --git a/doc/man/cdist-env.text b/doc/man/cdist-env.text
index 8d10aa85..cf54d363 100644
--- a/doc/man/cdist-env.text
+++ b/doc/man/cdist-env.text
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ in csh variants (csh, tcsh):
 eval `./bin/cdist-env`
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-Replace "./" with the checkout directory of cdist.
+For bourne shell, the is also a shorter version:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+. ./bin/cdist-env
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
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