diff --git a/tutorials/julia/t9.jl b/tutorials/julia/t9.jl
index 15fe5336d73548e95111b70924913e1985b71a7f..c9b291caa99bda2b738144583be3729db958e5ae 100644
--- a/tutorials/julia/t9.jl
+++ b/tutorials/julia/t9.jl
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ import gmsh
 gmsh.initialize()
 
 # Let us for example include a three-dimensional scalar view:
-path = abspath(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..","view3.pos"))
-gmsh.merge(path)
+gmsh.merge(abspath(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..","view3.pos")))
 
 v = gmsh.view.getTags()
 if length(v) != 1