diff --git a/doc/sample_hooks/post-merge-unclobber b/doc/sample_hooks/post-merge-unclobber
index 23c757c08432f46f01ec07ba71fc1cb887378ad4..2b8f286053b445324ae31694f8559c6b90a130b0 100755
--- a/doc/sample_hooks/post-merge-unclobber
+++ b/doc/sample_hooks/post-merge-unclobber
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@
 # directory. Git and thus vcsh now see these as un-staged changes to the
 # working branch and you can deal with them as usual.
 
-find -name '*.vcsh-unclobber' -execdir rename .vcsh-unclobber '' {} \;
+find . -name '*.vcsh-unclobber' -execdir rename .vcsh-unclobber '' {} \;