diff --git a/tools/bufr_filter.c b/tools/bufr_filter.c
index d10ae0a1e..74fdc7fc5 100644
--- a/tools/bufr_filter.c
+++ b/tools/bufr_filter.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ char* grib_tool_description="Apply the rules defined in rules_file to each BUFR
    "If you specify '-' (a single dash) for the rules_file, the rules will be read from standard input.";
 char* grib_tool_name="bufr_filter";
 char* grib_tool_usage="[options] rules_file "
-        "file file ...";
+        "bufr_file bufr_file ...";
 
 int grib_options_count=sizeof(grib_options)/sizeof(grib_option);
 
diff --git a/tools/bufr_filter.sh b/tools/bufr_filter.sh
index 5b647cce4..c8fb17fec 100755
--- a/tools/bufr_filter.sh
+++ b/tools/bufr_filter.sh
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ echo "write \"../data/split/[bufrHeaderCentre:i]_[dataCategory].bufr[editionNumb
 echo "\\endverbatim\\n"
 echo "Then we create the BUFR file multitype.bufr from three others: \\n"
 echo "\\verbatim"
-echo "mkdir ../data/split \\n"
-echo "cat ../data/bufr/syno_1.bufr ../data/bufr/goes_87.bufr ../data/bufr/gosat.bufr > ../data/split/multitype.bufr \\n"
+echo ">mkdir ../data/split \\n"
+echo ">cat ../data/bufr/syno_1.bufr ../data/bufr/goes_87.bufr ../data/bufr/gosat.bufr > ../data/split/multitype.bufr \\n"
 echo "\\endverbatim\\n"
 echo "Applying this rules_file to the \"../data/split/multitype.bufr\" bufr file we obtain several files in the ../data/split directory containing "
 echo " messages split according to their key values\\n "