diff --git a/man/coredumpctl.xml b/man/coredumpctl.xml
index 68ba6dc9f2..6ceed41b05 100644
--- a/man/coredumpctl.xml
+++ b/man/coredumpctl.xml
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ Fri … 552351 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 28.7M
            GID: 1000 (user)
         Signal: 11 (SEGV)
      Timestamp: Mon 2021-01-01 00:00:01 CET (20s ago)
-  Command Line: bash -c kill -SEGV $$
+  Command Line: bash -c $'kill -SEGV $$'
     Executable: /usr/bin/bash
  Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/…
           Unit: user@1000.service
diff --git a/src/coredump/coredump.c b/src/coredump/coredump.c
index 2fb2404500..a16be3c448 100644
--- a/src/coredump/coredump.c
+++ b/src/coredump/coredump.c
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static int get_process_container_parent_cmdline(pid_t pid, char** cmdline) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return r;
 
-        r = get_process_cmdline(container_pid, SIZE_MAX, 0, cmdline);
+        r = get_process_cmdline(container_pid, SIZE_MAX, PROCESS_CMDLINE_QUOTE_POSIX, cmdline);
         if (r < 0)
                 return r;
 
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ static int gather_pid_metadata(struct iovec_wrapper *iovw, Context *context) {
         if (sd_pid_get_slice(pid, &t) >= 0)
                 (void) iovw_put_string_field_free(iovw, "COREDUMP_SLICE=", t);
 
-        if (get_process_cmdline(pid, SIZE_MAX, 0, &t) >= 0)
+        if (get_process_cmdline(pid, SIZE_MAX, PROCESS_CMDLINE_QUOTE_POSIX, &t) >= 0)
                 (void) iovw_put_string_field_free(iovw, "COREDUMP_CMDLINE=", t);
 
         if (cg_pid_get_path_shifted(pid, NULL, &t) >= 0)