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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ complete (and more colorful) variants, see
 [here](https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized) or
 [here](https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS).
 
-`fd` also honors the [NO_COLOR](https://no-color.org/) environment variable.
+`fd` also honors the [`NO_COLOR`](https://no-color.org/) environment variable.
 
 ## Parallel command execution
 If the `-x`/`--exec` option is specified alongside a command template, a job pool will be created