diff --git a/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v2.md b/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v2.md
index 159607f7..6c03bd3e 100644
--- a/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v2.md
+++ b/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v2.md
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ encrypted and compressed.
   **Note:** For multi-part files, a loop can be used:
  
   ~~~
-  for f in private.img.*; do
+  find -name 'private.img.*' | sort -V | while read f; do
     openssl enc -d -pass pass:your_passphrase -aes-256-cbc -in $f -out
   ${f/.img/.img.dec}
   done
diff --git a/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v3.md b/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v3.md
index c2774ee9..2718b5d4 100644
--- a/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v3.md
+++ b/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v3.md
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ any GNU/Linux system with the following procedure.
 
  5. Decrypt the `private.img` file.
 
-        [user@restore vm1]$ cat private.img.??? | openssl enc -d -pass pass:your_passphrase -aes-256-cbc -out private.img.dec
+        [user@restore vm1]$ find -name 'private.img.*[0-9]' | sort -V | xargs cat | openssl enc -d -pass pass:your_passphrase -aes-256-cbc -out private.img.dec
 
     **Note:** If your backup was encrypted with a cipher algorithm other than
     `aes-256-cbc`, you must substitute the correct cipher command. This
diff --git a/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v4.md b/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v4.md
index 3dc2d22a..6824c65c 100644
--- a/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v4.md
+++ b/user/common-tasks/backup-emergency-restore-v4.md
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Emergency Recovery Instructions
  6. Verify the integrity of and decrypt the `private.img` file that houses your
     data.
 
-        [user@restore ~]$ for f_enc in vm1/private.img.???.enc; do \
+        [user@restore ~]$ find vm1 -name 'private.img.*.enc' | sort -V | while read f_enc; do \
             f_dec=${f_enc%.enc}; \
             echo "$backup_id!$f_dec!$backup_pass" | scrypt dec -P $f_enc $f_dec || break; \
             done
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Emergency Recovery Instructions
 
  7. Decompress and untar the decrypted `private.img` file.
 
-        [user@restore ~]$ cat vm1/private.img.??? | gzip -d | tar -xv
+        [user@restore ~]$ find vm1 -name 'private.img.*[0-9]' | sort -V | xargs cat | gzip -d | tar -xv
         vm1/private.img
 
     **Note:** If your backup was compressed with a program other than `gzip`,