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Also precede the file list by `--`. A very confusing thing can happen if a file happens to begin with a dash... (You can intersperse options like `-e pattern` a

• iforgotpassword 6y ago
  But that's not grep specific and generally a good idea, especially in scripts that get the file names from their command line, some input file or god knows where.
• steerablesafe 6y ago
  If the command line utility doesn't support -- or equivalent then you can prepend "./" for untrusted filenames.