diff --git a/scripts/tests/test_pr_changed_files.py b/scripts/tests/test_pr_changed_files.py
index 080fa3de2..30272b476 100644
--- a/scripts/tests/test_pr_changed_files.py
+++ b/scripts/tests/test_pr_changed_files.py
@@ -2849,8 +2849,8 @@ def _fold_continuations(lines):
 
     NO `rstrip()`, for the same reason. A backslash followed by trailing whitespace is not a
     continuation to bash — the backslash escapes the SPACE — and tolerating it was the one route by
-    which this fold could DESTROY a `jq` token rather than fabricate one: `ok=y\\` plus invisible
-    trailing spaces, then a dedented `jq -e ...`, folds to `okyjq -e`, and `\\bjq\\b` finds no word
+    which this fold could DESTROY a `jq` token rather than fabricate one: `ok=y\` plus invisible
+    trailing spaces, then a dedented `jq -e ...`, folds to `okyjq -e`, and `\bjq\b` finds no word
     boundary after the `y`. Every other divergence here over-joins, which can only ever cost a false
     positive. Matching the shell exactly is both simpler and the only direction that cannot lose a
     `jq`.