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
