diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index f7556cfec16b89..87e771ca10a022 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ struct gpt_params {
     bool use_color         = false; // use color to distinguish generations and inputs
     bool interactive       = false; // interactive mode
     bool interactive_specials = false; // whether to allow special tokens from user, during interactive mode
-    bool ctrl_token_no_out = false; // disable control token output
+    bool no_special        = false; // disable control token output
     bool conversation      = false; // conversation mode (does not print special tokens and suffix/prefix)
     bool chatml            = false; // chatml mode (used for models trained on chatml syntax)
     bool prompt_cache_all  = false; // save user input and generations to prompt cache
diff --git a/examples/main/main.cpp b/examples/main/main.cpp
index d5288a5e62a656..fc54861811184f 100644
--- a/examples/main/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/main/main.cpp
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 if (!llama_token_is_control_token(llama_get_model(ctx), id)) {
                     // Stream Output Token To Standard Output
                     fprintf(stdout, "%s", token_str.c_str());
-                } else if (!params.ctrl_token_no_out) {
+                } else if (!params.no_special) {
 #ifndef _MSC_VER
                     if (control_token_file_descriptor_is_attached) {
                         // Stream Control Token To Special Token Output. Useful for debugging control token behaviour