diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index f9241b51f..ab8d915cb 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -5681,7 +5681,7 @@ Linux version 1.0.9 (quinlan@phaze) #1 Sat May 14 01:51:54 EDT 1994
 This file displays various virtual memory statistics.
 Each line of this file contains a single name-value pair,
 delimited by white space.
-Some files are present only if the kernel was configured with
+Some lines are present only if the kernel was configured with
 suitable options.
 (In some cases, the options required for particular files have changed
 across kernel versions, so they are not listed here.