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-rw-r--r--src/md5sum.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/md5sum.c b/src/md5sum.c
index a60e2ff3a..8c5f8761b 100644
--- a/src/md5sum.c
+++ b/src/md5sum.c
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ The following four options are useful only when verifying checksums:\n\
printf (_("\
\n\
The sums are computed as described in %s. When checking, the input\n\
-should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print\n\
-a line with checksum, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary,\n\
-space for text), and name for each FILE.\n"),
+should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print a\n\
+line with checksum, a space, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary,\
+\n' ' for text or where binary is insignificant), and name for each FILE.\n"),
DIGEST_REFERENCE);
emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME);
}