Re: grep bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Jarc on 6/28/2006 10:29 AM:
> Lars Ångman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> grep "-b" foo.bar
>>
>> the command hangs, i.e. I never get back to the promt. 
> 
> -b is interpreted as an option, and foo.bar is interpreted as the
> pattern to search for.  Since no apparent filename is given, grep
> reads stdin.
> 
> You can use "grep -e regexp" to search for a pattern that starts with
> "-".  That will stop the pattern from being interpreted as options.

Or, keeping in the tradition of most POSIX apps, use -- as the separator
between options and arguments.

grep -- -b foo.bar

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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