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-.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.272 2018/04/02 04:26:17 dholland Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.273 2018/05/27 01:14:51 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)make.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/19/94
.\"
-.Dd June 22, 2017
+.Dd May 26, 2018
.Dt MAKE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1227,8 +1227,15 @@ due uno quattro tre
.Ed
.It Cm \&:Q
Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be passed
+safely to the shell.
+.It Cm \&:q
+Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, and also doubles
+.Sq $
+characters so that it can be passed
safely through recursive invocations of
.Nm .
+This is equivalent to:
+.Sq \&:S/\e\&$/&&/g:Q .
.It Cm \&:R
Replaces each word in the variable with everything but its suffix.
.It Cm \&:range[=count]