diff --git a/util/stripbs.c b/util/stripbs.c
index 4c7af7fed..49802ade0 100644
--- a/util/stripbs.c
+++ b/util/stripbs.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 /*
  * a simple filter to strip character-backspace-character
- * from stdin and write the results to stdout.
+ * from stdin and write the final character to stdout.
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>