bug#24067: Bug Report : How to grep and treat meta character as normal character?

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:46 AM, bibek ghimire <gbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>     /usr/bin/grep --color=auto $*

That function is erroneous due to the use of unquoted $*.
Use this instead, which fixes that, and also works when the executable
grep is not in /usr/bin:

grep() { env grep --color=auto "$@"; }