GNU bug report logs - #24067
Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: bibek ghimire <gbibek <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: bibek ghimire <gbibek <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:21:54 -0500

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Hi there,
            i have asked this
<http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/297868/how-to-grep-and-treat-meta-character-as-normal-character>
question in stackoverflow was not able to find out why

 I get error :

 grep: \<int: No such file or directory
     grep: N\>: No such file or directory

When I use $grep -F ...

        problem happen but

       when I use fgrep the problem vanishes.


-Solta

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