diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
index fe56c77dd4..4cc22013e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
         run: earthly --version
 
       - name: on trunk; prepare a self contained benchmark folder
-        run: ./ci/safe-earthly.sh +prep-bench-folder --build-arg BENCH_SUFFIX=trunk
+        run: ./ci/safe-earthly.sh --build-arg BENCH_SUFFIX=trunk +prep-bench-folder 
 
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
diff --git a/Earthfile b/Earthfile
index 20b348a14e..2322243d0d 100644
--- a/Earthfile
+++ b/Earthfile
@@ -144,4 +144,3 @@ prep-bench-folder:
     # copy the most recent time bench to bench-folder
     RUN cp target/release/deps/`ls -t target/release/deps/ | grep time_bench | head -n 1` bench-folder/target/release/deps/time_bench
     SAVE ARTIFACT bench-folder AS LOCAL bench-folder-$BENCH_SUFFIX
-