[debbugs-tracker] bug#27783: closed (display help instead of pattern search)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: display help instead of pattern search Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:46:20 +0000

Hello,

 

Grep v2.6.3

 

> grep -ri "--help" .

 

Displays the help message instead of searching for the requested pattern.

Same behavior for the pattern “--version”

 

Matthieu P.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#27783: display help instead of pattern search Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:07:58 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1

tag 27783 notabug
thanks

On 07/21/2017 02:46 AM, PAYET Matthieu -EXT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Grep v2.6.3
> 
>> grep -ri "--help" .
> 
> Displays the help message instead of searching for the requested pattern.

Because you didn't tell grep the options were over.  You want:

grep -ri -- --help

> Same behavior for the pattern "--version"

Ditto for any other pattern with a leading '-' - use -- to tell grep
that you are done with option parsing and to treat the next argument as
a pattern or filename.

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