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diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 7d1bbc021..3e4ac03a2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
filesystem.add_option(
'-a', '--batch-file',
dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
- help='File containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
+ help="File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line. "
+ "Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored.")
filesystem.add_option(
'--id', default=False,
action='store_true', dest='useid', help='Use only video ID in file name')