grep is always recursive

[Florian Diesch]

Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
>> 
>> The GNU option processor does not care where an option appears in the
>> command line which is a little odd and not what the documentation
>> suggests is the correct syntax. e.g. options come first before file
>> names, etc.  Anything with a leading "-" is considered an option.  Try
>> this sometime:
>> 
>> ls <file> -l <another_file>
>
> It certainly seems counter-intuitive to me, if not potentially
> dangerous. Imagine the accidental chaining of options with 'rm'.

Anything after '--' is not interpreted as an option, so you may use

  rm -- *



   Florian
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