diff --git a/wpull2-requeue b/wpull2-requeue
index 9032481..71aa5c9 100755
--- a/wpull2-requeue
+++ b/wpull2-requeue
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Usage: wpull2-requeue [ACTION] [FILENAME] [--where] URLPATTERN_OR_WHERE
-#  ACTION can be 'count' (default), 'print', or 'write'
+#  ACTION can be 'count' (default), 'print', or 'write'. On 'write', the number of modified records is printed.
 #  FILENAME defaults to 'wpull.db'
 #  URLPATTERN_OR_WHERE is URLPATTERN if --where isn't used or WHERE if it is.
 #  URLPATTERN uses SQLite's LIKE syntax with ESCAPE "\", i.e. % matches any number of characters, _ matches exactly one character, and a backslash can be used to escape these special characters.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ query='FROM queued_urls JOIN url_strings ON url_string_id = url_strings.id WHERE
 
 if [[ "${action}" == 'write' ]]
 then
-	sqlite3 "${filename}" 'UPDATE queued_urls SET status = "todo", try_count = 0, status_code = NULL WHERE id IN (SELECT queued_urls.id '"${query}"')'
+	sqlite3 "${filename}" 'UPDATE queued_urls SET status = "todo", try_count = 0, status_code = NULL WHERE id IN (SELECT queued_urls.id '"${query}"'); SELECT changes()'
 elif [[ "${action}" == 'print' ]]
 then
 	sqlite3 "${filename}" "SELECT queued_urls.*, url_strings.* ${query}"