diff --git a/website/docs/commands/0.12upgrade.html.markdown b/website/docs/commands/0.12upgrade.html.markdown
index c5d292650..3783be54e 100644
--- a/website/docs/commands/0.12upgrade.html.markdown
+++ b/website/docs/commands/0.12upgrade.html.markdown
@@ -99,9 +99,17 @@ are not supported by the tool itself, but if you are on a Unix-style system
 you can achieve this using the `find` command as follows:
 
 ```
-find . -name '*.tf' -printf "%h\n" | xargs -n1 terraform 0.12upgrade -yes
+find . -name '*.tf' -printf "%h\n" | uniq | xargs -n1 terraform 0.12upgrade -yes
 ```
 
+On Mac OS X, the `find` included with the system does not support the `-printf` argument. You can install GNU find using Homebrew in order to use that argument:
+
+```
+brew install findutils
+```
+Once installed, run the above command line using `gfind` instead of `find`.
+
+
 Note that the above includes the `-yes` option to override the interactive
 prompt, so be sure you have a clean work tree before running it.