diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst b/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
index 5698d93759..a6bd32a987 100644
--- a/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
+++ b/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
@@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@ Behind the scenes, the shared state code works by looking in
 shared state files. Here is an example::
 
    SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
-       file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \
+       file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \
        file://.* file:///some/local/dir/sstate/PATH"
 
 .. note::
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index b0621168ae..456d9ce098 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -7198,7 +7198,7 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       following maps the local search path ``universal-4.9`` to the
       server-provided path server_url_sstate_path::
 
-         SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "file://universal-4.9/(.*) http://server_url_sstate_path/universal-4.8/\1 \n"
+         SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "file://universal-4.9/(.*) http://server_url_sstate_path/universal-4.8/\1"
 
       If a mirror uses the same structure as
       :term:`SSTATE_DIR`, you need to add "PATH" at the
@@ -7207,7 +7207,7 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       ::
 
          SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
-             file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \
+             file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \
              file://.* file:///some-local-dir/sstate/PATH"
 
    :term:`SSTATE_SCAN_FILES`