again a piwik update issue (no replies)

-bash-3.2$ php /home/content/92/1xxxxx2/html/piwik/console core:update
Content-type: text/html

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<b>Warning</b>: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in <b>/home/content/92/1xxxxxx2/html/piwik/console</b> on line <b>23</b><br />
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<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in <b>/home/content/92/1xxxxxx2/html/piwik/console</b> on line <b>23</b><br />