diff --git a/templates/tar.tmpl b/templates/tar.tmpl
index 490aa7f69d..3f6d684957 100644
--- a/templates/tar.tmpl
+++ b/templates/tar.tmpl
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ short_desc="The GNU tape archiver with remote magnetic tape support"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 checksum=be8bf33afb5adc2377e45d94693ffd46b75f267f9b808df0c7006e51211f9deb
 long_desc="
- GNU tar, originally shipped as NetBSD's "tar" up to version 1.3, is a
+ GNU tar, originally shipped as NetBSD's \"tar\" up to version 1.3, is a
  full-featured tar command that can access remote and local magnetic tapes,
  tar files (ustar, POSIX, and V7), and even compressed or gzipped versions
  of these.  Note that as of the current version of GNU tar (1.12), gtar