Dear gnu.org Team,

I have useed grep to search for double minus in a string and grep told me an
error, take a look to the samples

[root@myhost]# echo "Test --" | grep -i '--'
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.


[root@myhost]# echo "Test --" | grep -i ' --'
Test --


[root@myhost]# grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

Best regards Daniel


  • grep Daniel Schade

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