grep - invalid argument

grep - invalid argument

[Jerry Rocteur]

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Hi,

Does anyone know which zsh setting would make grep give error:

grep: xxx: Invalid argument

Where xxx is a subdirectory of where you are running your grep from ?

Note that we are running zsh in ksh compatibility mode:

ls -l $SHELL
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Sep 25  2009 /bin/ksh -> /bin/zsh

echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.2.6

Thanks in advance,

Jerry

Re: grep - invalid argument

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 2, 12:38pm, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
} 
} Does anyone know which zsh setting would make grep give error:
} 
} grep: xxx: Invalid argument
} 
} Where xxx is a subdirectory of where you are running your grep from ?

You'll have to be more specific about the grep command line that causes
the error.

On a guess, there is a file in the current directory that has a name
beginning with a dash ("-") and you used a glob pattern to match the
files that you're grepping.