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-rw-r--r--src/remove.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index b98f3ecb2..4cc4a0817 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -283,10 +283,11 @@ prompt (FTS const *fts, FTSENT const *ent, bool is_dir,
fprintf (stderr,
(write_protected
- /* TRANSLATORS: You may find it more convenient to
- translate "%s: remove %s (write-protected) %s? "
- instead. It should avoid grammatical problems
- with the output of file_type. */
+ /* TRANSLATORS: In the next two strings the second %s is
+ replaced by the type of the file. To avoid grammatical
+ problems, it may be more convenient to translate these
+ strings instead as: "%1$s: %3$s is write-protected and
+ is of type '%2$s' -- remove it? ". */
? _("%s: remove write-protected %s %s? ")
: _("%s: remove %s %s? ")),
program_name, file_type (sbuf), quoted_name);