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Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character?

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From: bibek ghimire <gbibek <at> gmail.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 24067-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24067: Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character?
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:25:29 -0500

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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 <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:46 AM, bibek ghimire <gbibek <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> >     /usr/bin/grep --color=auto $*
>
> That function is erroneous due to the use of unquoted $*.
> Use this instead, which fixes that, and also works when the executable
> grep is not in /usr/bin:
>
> grep() { env grep --color=auto "$@"; }
>

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