diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 43c2bef..47af639 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 etc/scitas-motd.conf.local
 .*.swp
+rpmbuild/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8bea27d..42aa52e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 # Description
 The tools that are used to display a custom composable motd on login in SCITAS clusters.
 
 # Build RPM 
 Recipe to build the RPM, the tag with the version number must exist!
 
 ```bash
 export VERSION=0.1
 export TOPDIR="$(pwd)/rpmbuild"
-mkdir -p $TOPDIR/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
+rm -rf "${TOPDIR}"
+mkdir -p "${TOPDIR}/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}"
 git archive --prefix=scitas-motd-scripts-$VERSION/ -o $TOPDIR/SOURCES/scitas-motd-scripts-$VERSION.tar.gz $VERSION
 cp scitas-motd-scripts.spec $TOPDIR/SPECS/
 rpmbuild --define "_topdir $TOPDIR"   -bb $TOPDIR/SPECS/scitas-motd-scripts.spec
 ```