bug#60038: closed (grep 2.20 - invalid option with search pattern "-/")

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: grep 2.20 - invalid option with search pattern "-/" Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:50:44 +0000

Hello,

 

When searching for a pattern that includes “-/”, the pattern is interpreted as option:

 

[dsg@db01]# grep "-" example.txt
--/--
[dsg@db01]# grep "/" example.txt
--/--
[dsg@db01]# grep "-/" example.txt
grep: invalid option -- '/'
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
[dsg@db01]# grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.20
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others, see <http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

 

Kind regards

Daniel

 

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> Re: bug#60038: grep 2.20 - invalid option with search pattern "-/"
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> Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:45:21 -0800
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> tags 60038 notabug
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> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 10:04 AM Daniel Schättgen
> <daniel.schaettgen@abraxas.de> wrote:
> > When searching for a pattern that includes "-/", the pattern is interpreted 
> > as option:
> >
> > [dsg@db01]# grep "-" example.txt
> > --/--
> > [dsg@db01]# grep "/" example.txt
> > --/--
> > [dsg@db01]# grep "-/" example.txt
> > grep: invalid option -- '/'
> > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
> > Try 'grep --help' for more information.
> > [dsg@db01]# grep --version
> > grep (GNU grep) 2.20
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> Thanks, but this is not a bug.
> To search for a pattern that starts with "-", use grep's -e option, e.g.,
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>   grep -e -/ example.txt
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> Also, you're using grep-2.20, which is more than 8 years old.
> The latest is grep-3.8.
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