diff --git a/src/doc/man/recollindex.1 b/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
index aad76d7a..175d52ca 100644
--- a/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
+++ b/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
@@ -128,11 +128,11 @@ or
 , if no file names are given on the command line, they
 will be read from stdin, so that you could for example run:
 .PP
-find /path/to/dir -print | recollindex -e 
+find /path/to/dir \-print | recollindex -e 
 .PP
 followed by 
 .PP
-find /path/to/dir -print | recollindex -i
+find /path/to/dir \-print | recollindex -i
 .PP
 to force the reindexing of a directory tree (which has to exist inside the
 file system area defined by