diff --git a/website/docs/source/v2/provisioning/shell.html.md b/website/docs/source/v2/provisioning/shell.html.md
index 574289353..e46d0ad52 100644
--- a/website/docs/source/v2/provisioning/shell.html.md
+++ b/website/docs/source/v2/provisioning/shell.html.md
@@ -136,12 +136,13 @@ that the external path has the proper extension (".bat" or ".ps1"), because
 Windows uses this to determine what kind fo file it is to execute. If you
 exclude this extension, it likely won't work.
 
-To run a script already available on the guest you have to use an inline script.
+To run a script already available on the guest you can use an inline script to
+invoke the remote script on the guest.
 
 ```ruby
 Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   config.vm.provision "shell",
-    inline: "/path/to/the/script/on/the/guest"
+    inline: "/bin/sh /path/to/the/script/already/on/the/guest.sh"
 end
 ```