--- a/src/doc/man/recollq.1
+++ b/src/doc/man/recollq.1
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
command will execute the Recoll query specified on the command line and
print the results to the standard output. It is primarily designed for
diagnostics, or piping the data to some other program. The basic format and
-its variations can be useful for command line querying. The -F option
+its variations can be useful for command line querying. The \-F option
should exclusively be used for using the output data in another program, as
it is the only one for which output is guaranteed to be fully parseable.
.PP