diff --git a/reference/filesystem/functions/stat.xml b/reference/filesystem/functions/stat.xml
index 96b2cc2754..5a2ea6b2b4 100644
--- a/reference/filesystem/functions/stat.xml
+++ b/reference/filesystem/functions/stat.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.17 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.18 $ -->
 <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.stat">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>stat</refname>
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
       <row>
        <entry>6</entry>
        <entry>rdev</entry>
-       <entry>device type, if inode device *</entry>
+       <entry>device type, if inode device</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>7</entry>