[Binari] grep

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 -- Sofie Van Landeghem PhD Student VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM Tel: +32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 Website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be