Return 1 if no matches were found

[plocate] / plocate.1

diff --git a/plocate.1 b/plocate.1
index b5d04ddda54b9c226064d2b24d86d2be4c027456..03ba56e6fa2b538e7159e2def6f35f8aa0750154 100644 (file)
--- a/plocate.1
+++ b/plocate.1
@@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ and none that are not, by means of running with the setgid
 bit set to access the index (which is built as root), but by
 testing visibility as the calling user.
 
+.SH EXIT STATUS
+.B plocate
+exits with 0 to indicate that a match was found or that
+.B --help
+or
+.B --version
+were passed. Otherwise,
+.B plocate
+exits with status code 1, indicating that an error occurred or that no matches were found.
+
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR