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@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ NOTE: you need to have libcurl-dev installed in your system
 Usage
 =====
 
-./stikkit -b <url>
+```
+./stikkit -b url
 # now type text and hit ctrl+d to exit
+```
 
-cat <file> | stikkit -b <url>
+cat file | stikkit -b url
 
-<url> is an url to stikked server for example, if your server is http://something.blah/stikked and your api is http://something.blah/stikked/api then use http://something.blah/stikked as parameter to -b
+url is an url to stikked server for example, if your server is http://something.blah/stikked and your api is http://something.blah/stikked/api then use http://something.blah/stikked as parameter to -b
 
 The url parameter can be stored to configuration file (stikkit will ask you in case there is none in config file)