Try
grep -e "-->"

I didn't try it out, but normally it works (also when you want to grep 
more things, e.g. grep -e "bla" -e "dup")

Esther.

Sofie Van Landeghem wrote:
  

Suppose you want to grep "-->" from a file, how do you do it without 
grep complaining about
1. wrong usage because of "-"
2. missing name for redirect because of ">"

I thought the -F option would be what I needed, but I can't get it to 
work...

thanks,
Sofie

  
    

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