diff --git a/slurm-eff-tool.py b/slurm-eff-tool.py
index be10ef2..0ce6731 100755
--- a/slurm-eff-tool.py
+++ b/slurm-eff-tool.py
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ def parse_args(argv: list[str]) -> argparse.Namespace:
     p = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
         description="Display seff-style CPU, memory and walltime efficiency values from sacct data.",
-        epilog="""-S/-E/--state are ignored when reading data from a cached file.
+        epilog="""-S/-E are ignored when reading data from a cached file.
 
   Examples:
   # first get an overview (-U/--aggr-user) and write a cachefile