WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and 
> gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it.  
> Hence the question about what shell the poster is using....

sh, bash, or ksh just pass it a long literally if not matched

tcsh, csh complain if not match. The error message says the command name 
-- but that is bogus -- as the command is never even ran. Really it is the 
shell.