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Fix description of the "escape" quoting style

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Sergey Poznyakoff
2016-11-12 12:49:10 +02:00
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@@ -8491,9 +8491,7 @@ quoting}. The characters in question are:
The exact way @command{tar} uses to quote these characters depends on
the @dfn{quoting style}. The default quoting style, called
@dfn{escape} (see below), uses backslash notation to represent control
characters, space and backslash. Using this quoting style, control
characters are represented as listed in column @samp{Character} in the
above table, a space is printed as @samp{\ } and a backslash as @samp{\\}.
characters and backslash.
@GNUTAR{} offers seven distinct quoting styles, which can be selected
using @option{--quoting-style} option:
@@ -8624,10 +8622,9 @@ $ @kbd{tar tf arch.tar --quoting-style=c}
@end smallexample
@item escape
Control characters are printed using backslash notation, a space is
printed as @samp{\ } and a backslash as @samp{\\}. This is the
default quoting style, unless it was changed when configured the
package.
Control characters are printed using backslash notation, and a
backslash as @samp{\\}. This is the default quoting style, unless it
was changed when configured the package.
@smallexample
@group