Problem with grep

[Ben Stringer]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:04, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> 
> As part of something I am doing here, I need grep to search a file for
> "-10-", minus the quotes. If it exists, it needs to do a command. So, my 
> grep line looks like this:


The unix standard for bypassing problems like this is to put "--" on the
command line before your pattern. This is a unix convention for "no more
flag options follow", and seems to work in this case.

Eg. 

  grep -- "-10-" file

Cheers, Ben