"Leslie E. Ballentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe it is interpreting -o as an option (although I would think that the > single quotes would stop that from happening),
The quotes do not change a thing. The argument still starts with a '-'. > but even that does not explain the behavior. In absence of a file argument grep reads standard input. > And how do I search a file for the characters "-o"? Use -e. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
