diff --git a/src/doc/man/recollq.1 b/src/doc/man/recollq.1
index 5895fe81..c698284f 100644
--- a/src/doc/man/recollq.1
+++ b/src/doc/man/recollq.1
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ The
 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