diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/el8/profiles/default/initprofile.sh b/confluent_osdeploy/el8/profiles/default/initprofile.sh
index d181235d..0f2f50af 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/el8/profiles/default/initprofile.sh
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/el8/profiles/default/initprofile.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-sed -i s/centos/CentOS/ "s/rhel/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/" $2/profile.yaml
+sed -i 's/centos/CentOS/; s/rhel/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/' $2/profile.yaml
 ln -s $1/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz $2/boot/kernel && \
 ln -s $1/images/pxeboot/initrd.img $2/boot/initramfs/distribution
 mkdir -p $2/boot/media/EFI/BOOT && \