Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com>: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, canito at dalan.us wrote: > >> Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com>: >> >>> I'm not sure of exactly what your issue is. I'm thinking you need >>> the "--", so I made a script with that, exactly like this: >>> >>> >>> -------begin script on next line--------- >>> #!/bin/bash >>> >>> PATTERN=$1 >>> >>> grep -Eic -- "$PATTERN" >>> -------end script on previous line--------- >>> >>> >>> And I ran it: >>> >>> >>> $ echo -e "-testa\n-testb\nblah\nfoo\nbar\ntest\na-test" | ./script -test >>> 3 >>> >>> >>> That's the right answer. Note that if you don't have a filename, >>> you have to grep from stdin, which is what I did. >>> >>> Mike >> >> Thank you Mike- >> >> Not sure what the problem is either. I've had a couple of issues >> with egrep/grep on Red Hat. >> >> Again, I do appreciate the follow up. > > > What version of grep are you using? This is mine: > > $ grep --version > GNU grep 2.5.4 > > $ egrep --version > GNU grep 2.5.4 > > I read somewhere a few years ago that egrep was deprecated and that > we were supposed to use "grep -E" instead. I doubt that's the > problem (at least on my system, I get the same result with egrep as > with "grep -E"). > > I know that earlier versions of the perl grep, grep -P, were pretty > buggy but I've had better luck recently. > > Mike grep --version GNU grep 2.6.3 Pretty weird. I'll just assume user error. cat param.sh #!/bin/bash set -x echo $1 FUNC=$1 grep -Eic -- "$FUNC" ./param.sh --test + echo --test --test + FUNC=--test + grep -Eic -- --test ^C It just hangs, which is weird. I was under the impression that one could grep variables. SDA > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list