Your bug report #24067: Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character? which was filed against the grep package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 24067@debbugs.gnu.org. -- 24067: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24067 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems