diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/get/get.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/get/get.go
index d50edfc48e6..f066e45b426 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/get/get.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/get/get.go
@@ -586,9 +586,9 @@ func (o *GetOptions) Run(f cmdutil.Factory, cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) e
 	if trackingWriter.Written == 0 && !o.IgnoreNotFound && len(allErrs) == 0 {
 		// if we wrote no output, and had no errors, and are not ignoring NotFound, be sure we output something
 		if allResourcesNamespaced {
-			fmt.Fprintln(o.ErrOut, fmt.Sprintf("No resources found in %s namespace.", o.Namespace))
+			fmt.Fprintf(o.ErrOut, "No resources found in %s namespace.\n", o.Namespace)
 		} else {
-			fmt.Fprintln(o.ErrOut, fmt.Sprintf("No resources found"))
+			fmt.Fprintln(o.ErrOut, "No resources found")
 		}
 	}
 	return utilerrors.NewAggregate(allErrs)