diff --git a/website/docs/provisioners/file.html.markdown b/website/docs/provisioners/file.html.markdown
index 1da7bd4e6..c3b8602e8 100644
--- a/website/docs/provisioners/file.html.markdown
+++ b/website/docs/provisioners/file.html.markdown
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ of `/foo` on the local machine will be uploaded to `/tmp/foo` on the remote mach
 `foo` directory on the remote machine will be created by Terraform.
 
 If the source, however, is `/foo/` (a trailing slash is present), and the destination is
-`/tmp`, then the contents of `/foo` will be uploaded directly into `/tmp` directly.
+`/tmp`, then the contents of `/foo` will be uploaded directly into `/tmp`.
 
 This behavior was adopted from the standard behavior of
 [rsync](https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync).