diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index b5312bd96..be35363f5 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ else()
     add_subdirectory(quantize-stats)
     add_subdirectory(perplexity)
     add_subdirectory(embedding)
-    add_subdirectory(save_load_state)
+    add_subdirectory(save-load-state)
 endif()
diff --git a/examples/save_load_state/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/save-load-state/CMakeLists.txt
similarity index 64%
rename from examples/save_load_state/CMakeLists.txt
rename to examples/save-load-state/CMakeLists.txt
index ba015b546..cff79fa1f 100644
--- a/examples/save_load_state/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/save-load-state/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-set(TARGET save_load_state)
-add_executable(${TARGET} save_load_state.cpp)
+set(TARGET save-load-state)
+add_executable(${TARGET} save-load-state.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE common llama ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
 target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_11)
diff --git a/examples/save_load_state/save_load_state.cpp b/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/save_load_state/save_load_state.cpp
rename to examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp