Hi Jim,
After following your comment, the error (I am not sure now if I
could call it an error) has gone. So you were right, it was due to the way
I was handling positional parameters in my .profile file.
Sol: changing from
grep ()
{
/usr/bin/grep --color=auto $*
}
to
grep ()
{
/usr/bin/grep --color=auto "$@"
}
solved it. (Not sure ';' is required here )
-Bibek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:46 AM, bibek ghimire <[email protected]> wrote:
> > /usr/bin/grep --color=auto $*
>
> That function is erroneous due to the use of unquoted $*.
> Use this instead, which fixes that, and also works when the executable
> grep is not in /usr/bin:
>
> grep() { env grep --color=auto "$@"; }
>
