Here is a strange behavior, which I find using version 2.5.1 of grep. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% cat testfile >12345 > -o sss >-o > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% grep 'o' testfile > -o sss >-o >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% grep '-o' testfile
At this point, grep hangs indefinitely. It seems that grep cannot find the string '-o'. Maybe it is interpreting -o as an option (although I would think that the single quotes would stop that from happening), but even that does not explain the behavior. Can you explain what is happening? And how do I search a file for the characters "-o"? Leslie
