grep problem

[Vladimir Botka]

> > $ echo 'a-b' | grep  '\-b'
> > a-b  

> Looks like it's treated as option -b even inside the single quotes, you 
> could use '--' to mark the end of options, i.e.:
> $ echo 'a-b' | grep -- -b
> a-b

FWIW. Still the question remains what makes escaped -b a pattern. It'd
be necessary to learn about getopt_long which is used to parse the
arguments to understand it, I think.
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Getopt-Long-Options.html

	-vlado
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