diff --git a/src/srun/libsrun/opt.c b/src/srun/libsrun/opt.c
index 2a44a8720c78f27ca6a87cde7ee38ff74433ba63..90ab72b9f58b39c4d5569bcc923ea511cc5655d2 100644
--- a/src/srun/libsrun/opt.c
+++ b/src/srun/libsrun/opt.c
@@ -2536,7 +2536,8 @@ static void _help(void)
 "Parallel run options:\n"
 "  -A, --account=name          charge job to specified account\n"
 "      --begin=time            defer job until HH:MM MM/DD/YY\n"
-"      --acctg-freq=<datatype>=<interval> accounting and profiling sampling\n" "                              intervals. Supported datatypes:\n"
+"      --acctg-freq=<datatype>=<interval> accounting and profiling sampling\n"
+"                              intervals. Supported datatypes:\n"
 "                              task=<interval> energy=<interval>\n"
 "                              network=<interval> filesystem=<interval>\n"
 "  -c, --cpus-per-task=ncpus   number of cpus required per task\n"