diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1edb712..003d6f4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@
     changes slightly the report that was produced. [#16][16]
 
     ```
-    $ chaos report --export-format=pdf journal1.json journal2.json report.pdf
-    $ chaos report --export-format=pdf journal*.json report.pdf
+    chaos report --export-format=pdf journal1.json journal2.json report.pdf
+    chaos report --export-format=pdf journal*.json report.pdf
     ```
 
 [16]: https://github.com/chaostoolkit/chaostoolkit-reporting/issues/16
@@ -270,4 +270,4 @@
 
 ### Added
 
--   Initial release
\ No newline at end of file
+-   Initial release
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 05aa2d5..6298678 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ PDF or HTML document.
 Install this package as any other Python packages:
 
 ```console
-$ pip install -U chaostoolkit-reporting
+pip install -U chaostoolkit-reporting
 ```
 
 Notice that this draws a few [dependencies][deps]:
@@ -40,25 +40,25 @@ Once installed, a new `report` subcommand will be made available to the
 `chaos` command, use it as follows:
 
 ```console
-$ chaos report --export-format=html5 journal.json report.html
+chaos report --export-format=html5 journal.json report.html
 ```
 
 or, for a PDF document:
 
 ```console
-$ chaos report --export-format=pdf journal.json report.pdf
+chaos report --export-format=pdf journal.json report.pdf
 ```
 
 You can also generate a single report from many journals at once:
 
 ```console
-$ chaos report --export-format=pdf journal-1.json journal-2 journal-3 report.pdf
+chaos report --export-format=pdf journal-1.json journal-2 journal-3 report.pdf
 ```
 
 Or more succinctly:
 
 ```console
-$ chaos report --export-format=pdf journal-*.json report.pdf
+chaos report --export-format=pdf journal-*.json report.pdf
 ```
 
 ## Download a Docker Image
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ pull. You can install `Docker` from the [Docker Hub][dockerhub].
 [dockerhub]: https://hub.docker.com/search?q=&type=edition&offering=community
 
 ```console
-$ docker pull chaostoolkit/reporting
+docker pull chaostoolkit/reporting
 ```
 
 ### Use a Docker container
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ file, generated during an experiment run, can be found. To check for this you ca
 
 
 ```console
-$ ls
+ls
 ```
 
 And you should see the `journal.json` file:
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ journal.json
 Now you can run the docker command:
 
 ```console
-$ docker run \
+docker run \
     --user `id -u` \
     -v `pwd`:/tmp/result \
     -it \
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ $ docker run \
 This will create `chaostoolkit.log` and `report.pdf` files in this directory.
 
 ```console
-$ ls
+ls
 ```
 
 ```
@@ -120,14 +120,14 @@ The default command of the image is equivalent to running this without a
 container:
 
 ```console
-$ chaos report --export-format=pdf journal.json report.pdf
+chaos report --export-format=pdf journal.json report.pdf
 ```
 
 If you wish to override that command, pass the `chaos report` parameters as
 follows:
 
 ```console
-$ docker run \
+docker run \
     --user `id -u` \
     -v `pwd`:/tmp/result \
     -it \
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ $ docker run \
 And the same files will be created:
 
 ```console
-$ ls
+ls
 ```
 
 ```
diff --git a/uni-install.md b/uni-install.md
index 984818c..9979b7a 100644
--- a/uni-install.md
+++ b/uni-install.md
@@ -18,20 +18,20 @@ That's enough to produce HTML reports, but if you'd like to produce `.pdf` repor
 The best way to install `latex` is to use Homebrew to grab `basictex`:
 
 ```
-$ brew install basictex
+brew install basictex
 ```
 
 Then use `ls /usr/local/Caskroom/basictex/` to see the actual directory the package resides in. Finally use the `open` command to run that Mac OS X package installer, for example:
 
 ```
-$ open /usr/local/Caskroom/basictex/2017.0607/mactex-basictex-20170607.pkg
+open /usr/local/Caskroom/basictex/2017.0607/mactex-basictex-20170607.pkg
 ```
 
 ### For Debian/Ubuntu
 We recommend using `sudo` to install the following packages:
 
 ```
-$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base \
+sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base \
     texlive-fonts-recommended \
     texlive-fonts-extra \
     texlive-latex-extra \
@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ Once the installer has completed, you should then be able to produce `.pdf` repo
 
   ```RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed as a framework.```
 
-  In this case, run the following: `$ echo "backend: TkAgg" >> ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc`
+  In this case, run the following: `echo "backend: TkAgg" >> ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc`