diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-comment-failures.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-comment-failures.yml
index b3a9f0790d..c5bf3007ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-comment-failures.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-comment-failures.yml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
               owner: context.repo.owner,
               repo: context.repo.repo,
               issue_number: issue_number,
-              body: 'Example ' + last_example_run + ' failed to run, please try running it locally and check the result.'
+              body: 'Example `' + last_example_run + '` failed to run, please try running it locally and check the result.'
             });
 
   missing-examples:
@@ -104,20 +104,20 @@ jobs:
           script: |
             var fs = require('fs');
             var issue_number = Number(fs.readFileSync('./NR'));
-            if (existsSync('./missing-metadata')) {
+            if (fs.existsSync('./missing-metadata')) {
               await github.rest.issues.createComment({
                 owner: context.repo.owner,
                 repo: context.repo.repo,
                 issue_number: issue_number,
-                body: 'You added a new example but didn't add metadata for it. Please update the root Cargo.toml file.'
+                body: 'You added a new example but didn\'t add metadata for it. Please update the root Cargo.toml file.'
               });
             }
-            if (existsSync('./missing-update')) {
+            if (fs.existsSync('./missing-update')) {
               await github.rest.issues.createComment({
                 owner: context.repo.owner,
                 repo: context.repo.repo,
                 issue_number: issue_number,
-                body: 'You added a new example but didn't update the readme. Please run `cargo run -p build-example-pages -- update` to update it, and commit the file change.'
+                body: 'You added a new example but didn\'t update the readme. Please run `cargo run -p build-example-pages -- update` to update it, and commit the file change.'
               });
             }
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e48279ef73..d4e68c54ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           for example in .github/example-run/*.ron; do
             example_name=`basename $example .ron`
-            echo $example > last_example_run
+            echo -n $example_name > last_example_run
             echo "running $example_name - "`date`
             time TRACE_CHROME=trace-$example_name.json CI_TESTING_CONFIG=$example xvfb-run cargo run --example $example_name --features "bevy_ci_testing,trace,trace_chrome"
             sleep 10
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           mkdir -p ./example-run
           echo ${{ github.event.number }} > ./example-run/NR
-          mv last_example_run > ./example-run/
+          mv last_example_run ./example-run/
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         if: ${{ failure() && github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
         with: