strange ( * vs ./* )

[Amos Shapira]

Good catch Matan.
Another way to avoid this is to add "--" (two dashes) after all the flags
and before the file names to tell grep that everything after it is a file
name.
On 10 Apr 2014 00:38, "Erez D" <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Erez D wrote:
>>
>>  erez at homer:~$ grep pppd *
>>> erez at homer:~$
>>>
>>> however:
>>>
>>> erez at homer:~$ grep pppd ./*
>>> ./chat.sh:pppd connect 'chat -v -s ABORT ERROR ABORT'
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a file whose name starts with a dash (-)?
>>
>> that was the issue.
> i had a file called '-q' .
> renaming it solved it
>
> thanks.
>
>>
>> --
>> Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org
>>
>>
>>
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