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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: bibek ghimire <gbibek <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24067: closed (Re: bug#24067: 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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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 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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