diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index 42aaf1e3c79e2a..a60fbbef91d4c7 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -3661,7 +3661,7 @@ Relative targets are relative to the link’s parent directory.
 ```mjs
 import { symlink } from 'fs';
 
-symlink('./mew', './example/mewtwo', callback);
+symlink('./mew', './mewtwo', callback);
 ```
 
 The above example creates a symbolic link `mewtwo` in the `example` which points