grep is always recursive

[Matthew Flaschen]

Lorenzo Luengo wrote:
> 
> The problem comes from the bash * expansion that makes grep see that 
> filename as an option. Is it a bash problem? Is it a grep problem?? 
> Don't know...

It's a "design decision", and it's not going to be changed any time soon
(READ: ever).  However, the given workarounds do work reliably.

$ grep "lala" *

$ grep -- "lala" *

will cause the option-looking directory to be ignored.

Matt Flaschen