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		zahlman on March 28, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 on March 28, 2025 [–]

(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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