diff --git a/sumdb/dirhash/hash.go b/sumdb/dirhash/hash.go
index 350403f..51ec4db 100644
--- a/sumdb/dirhash/hash.go
+++ b/sumdb/dirhash/hash.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 // Hash1 is "h1:" followed by the base64-encoded SHA-256 hash of a summary
 // prepared as if by the Unix command:
 //
-//	find . -type f | sort | sha256sum
+//	sha256sum $(find . -type f | sort) | sha256sum
 //
 // More precisely, the hashed summary contains a single line for each file in the list,
 // ordered by sort.Strings applied to the file names, where each line consists of