Subject: Re: bug#24067: Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character?

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:07:09 -0700

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:46 AM, bibek ghimire <[email-masked]> 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 "$@"; }