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zahlman
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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe...
Oh, of course simply quoting it doesn't disable the special meaning of --, because quoting is handled by the shell and argument parsing is handled by the program.
zahlman
40 days ago
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(Although that turns out not to matter for this particular grep invocation; the -- is still interpreted as a pattern and - as standard input.)
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