diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index 692dc6901..861aae973 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ and if there is ambiguity in that value, by querying
 .I WSTOPSIG(status)
 macro can't be used to perform this examination,
 because it returns the value
-.IR "(status\>>8)\ &\ 0xff" .)
+.IR "(status>>8)\ &\ 0xff" .)
 .SS Signal-delivery-stop
 When a (possibly multithreaded) process receives any signal except
 .BR SIGKILL ,