Re: [bug-grep] Re: fgrep bug

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:28:41PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:

> > address@hidden writes:
> > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2000-September/msg01325.html
> 
> > fgrep foo blah --- blah # that's three - signs
> 
> Try telling grep that there are no more options.
> 
>   fgrep -- foo blah --- blah # that's three - signs
> 
> That will avoid the --- being seen as an option.  This is generally a
> good thing when processing random files.
> 
>   grep -- pattern $randomfilelist

For globbing you also need to use patterns such as ./* instead of just
* to be sure that files named "-" are not taken to be standard input.

Tim.
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