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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Subject: bug#24067: closed (Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta
 character as normal character?)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:16:02 +0000

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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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bibek ghimire <gbibek <at> gmail.com>, 24067-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24067: Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as
 normal character?
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:15:47 +0200

It appears that you have an alias or other implementation of 'grep', and 
that this is not a bug in GNU 'grep' per se. If you are using a shell 
like 'bash', try these two shell commands to see which 'grep' you are 
actually using.

type grep
which grep

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