.BR : .
(Any character, including : and \\, can be escaped by prepending a \\.)
+.TP
+\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-existing\fR
+Print only entries that refer to files existing at the time
+.B locate
+is run. Note that unlike
+.BR mlocate (1),
+symlinks are not followed by default (and indeed, there is no option
+to change this).
+
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-case\fR
Do a case-insensitive match as given by the current locale
.B \-\-count
is given, the number printed out will be at most \fILIMIT\fR.
+.TP
+\fB\-N\fR, \fB\-\-literal\fR
+Print entry names without quoting. Normally,
+.B plocate
+will escape special characters in filenames, so that they are safe for
+consumption by typical shells (similar to the GNU coreutils
+.I shell-escape-always
+quoting style), unless printing to a pipe, but this options will
+turn off such quoting.
+
.TP
\fB\-0\fR, \fB\-\-null\fR
Instead of writing a newline after every match, write a NUL