diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
index b1313eae2..53f7954fe 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ If this function returns an error, no URL part is returned.
     char *scheme;
     rc = curl_url_get(url, CURLUPART_SCHEME, &scheme, 0);
     if(!rc) {
-      printf("the scheme is %s\n", scheme);
+      printf("the scheme is %s\\n", scheme);
       curl_free(scheme);
     }
     curl_url_cleanup(url);