diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4e515ab31..be1d1b434 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ MANUAL.txt:	MANUAL.md
 	pandoc -s --from markdown --to plain MANUAL.md -o MANUAL.txt
 
 commanddocs: rclone
-	rclone gendocs docs/content/commands/
+	XDG_CACHE_HOME="" XDG_CONFIG_HOME="" HOME="\$$HOME" USER="\$$USER" rclone gendocs docs/content/commands/
 
 backenddocs: rclone bin/make_backend_docs.py
 	./bin/make_backend_docs.py
diff --git a/docs/content/cache.md b/docs/content/cache.md
index cc9bde8b5..83d72df61 100644
--- a/docs/content/cache.md
+++ b/docs/content/cache.md
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ The remote name is used as the DB file name.
 - Config:      db_path
 - Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_DB_PATH
 - Type:        string
-- Default:     "/home/ncw/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"
+- Default:     "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"
 
 #### --cache-chunk-path
 
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ then "--cache-chunk-path" will use the same path as "--cache-db-path".
 - Config:      chunk_path
 - Env Var:     RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_PATH
 - Type:        string
-- Default:     "/home/ncw/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"
+- Default:     "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"
 
 #### --cache-db-purge