diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
index 12fdf19dffee..ad4a4dcc5fce 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ from
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