diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index de6d490bf..1fada8baa 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -186,11 +186,10 @@ whitelist_externals =
 [testenv:docs]
 sitepackages = {[docsbase]sitepackages}
 deps = {[docsbase]deps}
-whitelist_externals = echo
 commands =
-    echo -e "sphinx-apidoc --force -o docs/source/modules/ deluge deluge/plugins"\
-        "\n""sphinx-build -v -E -T -b html -d docs/build/doctrees docs/source docs/build/html"
-    python -c "import subprocess, sys; proc = subprocess.Popen(\
+    python -c "print '> sphinx-apidoc --force -o docs/source/modules/ deluge deluge/plugins\n'\
+        '> sphinx-build -v -E -T -b html -d docs/build/doctrees docs/source docs/build/html';\
+        import subprocess, sys; proc = subprocess.Popen(\
         'python setup.py build_docs', shell=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE);\
         err = proc.communicate()[1]; print err; sys.exit(bool(err))"