In .rts a \ is \\.

Fixes #8858.

diff --git a/pdns/recursordist/docs/manpages/rec_control.1.rst b/pdns/recursordist/docs/manpages/rec_control.1.rst
index 923b096753670f9e1477e1ef6ca791c94564cff4..b8374a4d4d8bc4c769522b33bf290b56a6cb807c 100644 (file)
--- a/pdns/recursordist/docs/manpages/rec_control.1.rst
+++ b/pdns/recursordist/docs/manpages/rec_control.1.rst
@@ -301,17 +301,18 @@ trace-regex *REGEX*
     tracing. To unset the regex, pass **trace-regex** without a new regex.
 
     The regular expression is matched against domain queries terminated with a
-    '.'. For example the regex 'powerdns\.com$' will not match a query for
+    '.'. For example the regex 'powerdns.com$' will not match a query for
     'www.powerdns.com', since the attempted match will be with
     'www.powerdns.com.'.
 
     In addition, since this is a regular expression, to exclusively match
     queries for 'www.powerdns.com', one should escape the dots:
-    '^www\.powerdns\.com\.$'.
+    '^www\\.powerdns\\.com\\.$'. Note that the single quotes prevent
+    further interpretation of the backslashes by the shell.
 
     Multiple matches can be chained with the '|' operator. For example, to
     match all queries for Dutch (.nl) and German (.de) domain names, use:
-    '\.nl\.$|\.de\.$'.
+    '\\.nl\\.$|\\.de\\.$'.
 
 unload-lua-script
     Unloads Lua script if one was loaded.