Implement the -N/--literal option.

[plocate] / plocate.1

diff --git a/plocate.1 b/plocate.1
index cc0e8430b4a6889c990e26e3dde60e79a399cc2d..3d02f2f606380489a23ffd108163dd0b767bd66f 100644 (file)
--- a/plocate.1
+++ b/plocate.1
@@ -106,6 +106,16 @@ matches have been found. If
 .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