diff --git a/doc/userman/user-sources.tex b/doc/userman/user-sources.tex
index fe3dce5597bd0bb76bc0ffe7129072fbb23a4a99..3d049acfa9f33a54c89ba778fe0fe4c1265c5cab 100644
--- a/doc/userman/user-sources.tex
+++ b/doc/userman/user-sources.tex
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ as if they had been manually added via \texttt{-cpp-extra-args-per-file}.
 Note: if both \texttt{-cpp-extra-args-per-file} and the JSON compilation
 database specify options for a given file, the former are used and the latter
 are ignored. Also note that the use of the database simply adds flags
-{\em for the files specified in the command-line}, but these files must still
+{\em for the files specified on the command-line}, but these files must still
 be specified by the user.
 
 In all of the above cases,
diff --git a/doc/userman/user-start.tex b/doc/userman/user-start.tex
index 2fb137f37cb2bd8d0cbd8f32739e973cac502831..099980681bbc7495273ca9b0a0e83435773c346d 100644
--- a/doc/userman/user-start.tex
+++ b/doc/userman/user-start.tex
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ option \texttt{-<plug-in shortname>-help} or \texttt{-<plug-in shortname>-h}.
 
 Finally, the option \optiondef{-}{explain} can be used to obtain information
 about some specific options of the kernel or of any installed plug-ins:
-it prints a help message for each other option given in the command line.
+it prints a help message for each other option given on the command line.
 
 \subsection{\FramaC Configuration}\label{sec:version}
 
diff --git a/doc/value/main.tex b/doc/value/main.tex
index 0afcb450bff549d6154ee7f9f9d44de778deaae3..d74d11da48850182dd592cf982d22195cc6ce37a 100644
--- a/doc/value/main.tex
+++ b/doc/value/main.tex
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ This call to \verb|printf| has no observable effects for the analysis anyway,
 so we do not have anything to be concerned with. It is still a good idea to
 check the specification of each function without body used during the analysis,
 since the overall correctness depends on them. This can be done using the
-GUI or, in the command line, with option \verb|-print|, which outputs the
+GUI or, on the command line, with option \verb|-print|, which outputs the
 Frama-C normalized source code, including ACSL specifications and
 transformations performed by the \textsf{Variadic} plugin.
 
diff --git a/man/frama-c.1.md b/man/frama-c.1.md
index fd594ab8978b16a1b826b39d655ce54c12cf4752..396cf3138d6b15f78d2354d2b41a5767104c8bc8 100644
--- a/man/frama-c.1.md
+++ b/man/frama-c.1.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ option which has the opposite effect.
 : prints the list of options recognized by Frama-C's kernel
 
 -explain
-: prints a help message for each other option given in the command line
+: prints a help message for each other option given on the command line
 
 -verbose *n*
 : sets verbosity level. Defaults to 1.
diff --git a/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/file.mli b/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/file.mli
index ab713a012fe2d70480d05cfdb750bdb874e6c10b..f92e9ad97db69f4b205b941c026b81843a8c34ce 100644
--- a/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/file.mli
+++ b/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/file.mli
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ type cpp_opt_kind = Gnu | Not_gnu | Unknown
 
 (** File type, according to how it will be preprocessed.
     Note: [string] is used here instead of [Filepath], to preserve
-          names given in the command line, without normalization. *)
+          names given on the command line, without normalization. *)
 type file =
   | NeedCPP of Filepath.Normalized.t * string * cpp_opt_kind
       (** The first string is the filename of the [.c] to preprocess.
diff --git a/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/json_compilation_database.ml b/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/json_compilation_database.ml
index 4d2c1eb41afe3b1bd1eebeda3ba8c13097bb1ff1..4f8eaa440efe9c2c426797e6df47e2ae1be306c0 100644
--- a/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/json_compilation_database.ml
+++ b/src/kernel_services/ast_queries/json_compilation_database.ml
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ let parse_entry ?(cwd=Sys.getcwd()) r =
     | Undefine s -> s ^ suffix
   in
   (* we must process the arguments in-order, since several -D and -U may
-     exist in the command line *)
+     exist on the command line *)
   (* prev is the prefix of the previous argument (if any) *)
   let _, res =
     List.fold_left (fun (prev, acc_res) arg ->
diff --git a/src/plugins/metrics/metrics_cilast.ml b/src/plugins/metrics/metrics_cilast.ml
index e7b4c4e4741a4440a8c5934c5926094a478c747d..c6a607be5d638141e0d2269cd2a6ce2a5d1a66d8 100644
--- a/src/plugins/metrics/metrics_cilast.ml
+++ b/src/plugins/metrics/metrics_cilast.ml
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ let used_files () =
 
 let pretty_used_files used_files =
   (* Note: used_files may also contain #include'd files,
-           but we only want those given in the command line *)
+           but we only want those given on the command line *)
   let cmdline_files = List.fold_left (fun acc file ->
       Datatype.Filepath.Set.add (
         Datatype.Filepath.of_string (Kernel_file.get_name file)