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@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ the expected size to **pv**:
 A more complicated example using numeric output to feed into the
 **dialog**(1) program for a full-screen progress display:
 
-> **(tar cf - . \\ **
-> **\| pv -n -s \$(du -sb . \| awk \'{print \$1}\') \\ **
-> **\| gzip -9 \> out.tgz) 2\>&1 \\ **
-> **\| dialog \--gauge \'Progress\' 7 70 **
+> (tar cf - . \\ \
+> \| pv -n -s \$(du -sb . \| awk \'{print \$1}\') \\ \
+> \| gzip -9 \> out.tgz) 2\>&1 \\ \
+> \| dialog \--gauge \'Progress\' 7 70 \
 
 Taking an image of a disk, skipping errors: