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 ==== JVM options
 
-CLI tools run with 64MB of heap. For most tools, this value is fine. However, if needed
-this can be overriden by setting the CLI_JAVA_OPTS environment variable. For example,
-the following increases the heap size used by the `pass:a[{tool-name}]` tool to 1GB.
+CLI tools run with 64MB of heap. For most tools, this value is fine. However, if
+needed this can be overriden by setting the `CLI_JAVA_OPTS` environment variable.
+For example, the following increases the heap size used by the
+`pass:a[elasticsearch-{tool-name}]` tool to 1GB.
 
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