diff --git a/tools/h5repack/h5repack_main.c b/tools/h5repack/h5repack_main.c
index 116c6cf25a..45cc2db61a 100644
--- a/tools/h5repack/h5repack_main.c
+++ b/tools/h5repack/h5repack_main.c
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ static void usage(const char *prog)
  printf("   Using latest file format with maximum compact group size of 10 and\n");
  printf("   and minimum shared datatype size of 20\n");
  printf("\n");
- printf("5) h5repack -f GZIP=1 -f SHUF file1 file2 \n");
+ printf("5) h5repack -f SHUF -f GZIP=1 file1 file2 \n");
  printf("\n");
- printf("   Add both filters GZIP and SHUF to all datasets\n");
+ printf("   Add both filters SHUF and GZIP in this order to all datasets\n");
  printf("\n");
 }