diff --git a/clients/tools/common.c b/clients/tools/common.c
index 0b7e6bc228..5624945c51 100644
--- a/clients/tools/common.c
+++ b/clients/tools/common.c
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ N_("  -I         use SASL Interactive mode\n"),
 N_("  -n         show what would be done but don't actually do it\n"),
 N_("  -N         do not use reverse DNS to canonicalize SASL host name\n"),
 N_("  -O props   SASL security properties\n"),
-N_("  -o <opt>[=<optparam] general options\n"),
+N_("  -o <opt>[=<optparam>] general options\n"),
 N_("             nettimeout=<timeout> (in seconds, or \"none\" or \"max\")\n"),
 N_("             ldif-wrap=<width> (in columns, or \"no\" for no wrapping)\n"),
 N_("  -p port    port on LDAP server\n"),