diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/files/find.py b/lib/ansible/modules/files/find.py
index d6d1d42c4f..7d7d4ab03a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/find.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/find.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 - find: paths="/var/tmp" age="3600" age_stamp=atime recurse=yes
 
 # find /var/log files equal or greater than 10 megabytes ending with .old or .log.gz
-- find: paths="/var/tmp" patterns="'*.old','*.log.gz'" size="10m"
+- find: paths="/var/tmp" patterns="*.old,*.log.gz" size="10m"
 
 # find /var/log files equal or greater than 10 megabytes ending with .old or .log.gz via regex
 - find: paths="/var/tmp" patterns="^.*?\.(?:old|log\.gz)$" size="10m" use_regex=True