diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
index c5ca4b7b9f52..b0a98bcca21a 100644
--- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
+++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"	From: @(#)sysctl.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 23, 1994
+.Dd May 28, 2001
 .Dt SYSCTL 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Equivalent to
 List all the currently available non-opaque values.
 This option is ignored if one or more variable names are specified on
 the command line.
+.It Fl b
+Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
+No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
+This is mostly useful with a single variable.
 .It Fl N
 Show only variable names, not their values.
 This is particularly useful with shells that offer programmable
@@ -84,11 +88,7 @@ For instance, to save the pagesize in variable psize, use:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
 set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize`
 .Ed
-.It Fl b
-Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
-No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
-This is mostly useful with a single variable.
-.Fl o
+.It Fl o
 Show opaque variables (which are normally suppressed).
 The format and length are printed, as well as a hex dump of the first
 sixteen bytes of the value.