of them. This is the main incompatibility with
.BR mlocate (1),
which searches for files that match one or more patterns, unless
-the \-a option is given.
+the \-A option is given.
By default, patterns are taken to be substrings to search for.
If at least one non-escaped globbing metacharacter (*, ? or []) is given,
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