diff --git a/commands.go b/commands.go
index 9a8ae57310..f62fdeef20 100644
--- a/commands.go
+++ b/commands.go
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ func (cli *DockerCli) CmdHelp(args ...string) error {
 		{"kill", "Kill a running container"},
 		{"login", "Register or Login to the docker registry server"},
 		{"logs", "Fetch the logs of a container"},
-		{"ls", "List links for containers"},
 		{"port", "Lookup the public-facing port which is NAT-ed to PRIVATE_PORT"},
 		{"ps", "List containers"},
 		{"pull", "Pull an image or a repository from the docker registry server"},
diff --git a/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst b/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst
index 6c9b7a4ffc..1712e62d69 100644
--- a/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst
@@ -58,20 +58,12 @@ Run the redis container
  
 This will run our redis container using the default port of 6379 and using
 as password to secure our service. Next we will link the redis container to 
-a new name using ``docker link`` and ``docker ls``.
+a new name using ``docker link``.
 
 
 Linking an existing container
 -----------------------------
 
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-    docker ls
-
-    NAME                                                                      ID                                                                 IMAGE
-    /39588b6a45100ef5b328b2c302ea085624f29e6cbab70f88be04793af02cec89         39588b6a45100ef5b328b2c302ea085624f29e6cbab70f88be04793af02cec89   crosbymichael/redis:latest
-
-
 Docker will automatically create an initial link with the container's id but
 because the is long and not very user friendly we can link the container with
 a new name.
@@ -80,12 +72,6 @@ a new name.
 
     docker link /39588b6a45100ef5b328b2c302ea085624f29e6cbab70f88be04793af02cec89 /redis
 
-    docker ls 
-
-    NAME                                                                      ID                                                                 IMAGE
-    /redis                                                                    39588b6a45100ef5b328b2c302ea085624f29e6cbab70f88be04793af02cec89   crosbymichael/redis:latest
-    /39588b6a45100ef5b328b2c302ea085624f29e6cbab70f88be04793af02cec89         39588b6a45100ef5b328b2c302ea085624f29e6cbab70f88be04793af02cec89   crosbymichael/redis:latest
-
 Now we can reference our running redis service using the friendly name ``/redis``.  
 We can issue all the commands that you would expect; start, stop, attach, using the new name.