used to escape and to undo escaping of strings.</para>
<para>The command takes any number of strings on the command line,
- and will process them individually, one after the other. It will
+ and will process them individually, one after another. It will
output them separated by spaces to stdout.</para>
- <para>By default this command will escape the strings passed,
+ <para>By default, this command will escape the strings passed,
unless <option>--unescape</option> is passed which results in the
- inverse operation being applied. If <option>--mangle</option> a
- special mode of escaping is applied instead, which assumes a
- string to be already escaped but will escape everything that
+ inverse operation being applied. If <option>--mangle</option> is given, a
+ special mode of escaping is applied instead, which assumes the
+ string is already escaped but will escape everything that
appears obviously non-escaped.</para>
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