diff --git a/core/Command/Base.php b/core/Command/Base.php
index 7c5e6f6d66f..8f94c1d473a 100644
--- a/core/Command/Base.php
+++ b/core/Command/Base.php
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class Base extends Command implements CompletionAwareInterface {
 		// Some of our commands do not extend this class; and some of those that do do not call parent::configure()
 		$defaultHelp = 'More extensive and thorough documentation may be found at ' . \OCP\Server::get(\OCP\Defaults::class)->getDocBaseUrl() . PHP_EOL;
 		$this
-			->setHelp($this->defaultHelp)
+			->setHelp($defaultHelp)
 			->addOption(
 				'output',
 				null,