diff --git a/manpages/pihole.8 b/manpages/pihole.8
index c30570df..a6ad8068 100644
--- a/manpages/pihole.8
+++ b/manpages/pihole.8
@@ -282,10 +282,10 @@ Some usage examples
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     \fBpihole -b -d noads.example.com\fR       Remove "noads.example.com" from blacklist
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-    \fBpihole --wild example.com\fR             Add example.com as a wildcard - would
+    \fBpihole --wild example.com\fR            Add example.com as a wildcard - would
     block all subdomains of example.com, including example.com itself.
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-    \fBpihole --regex "ad.*\.example\.com$"\fR  Add "ad.*\.example\.com$" to the regex
+    \fBpihole --regex "ad.*\\.example\\.com$"\fR Add "ad.*\\.example\\.com$" to the regex
     blacklist - would block all subdomains of example.com which start with "ad"
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