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grep: unknown directories method

Thank you LornaJane for your post about “grep: unknown directories method.” This was making me crazy today.
This happens when you’re wildcarding and there’s a file in your directory that starts with a hyphen (”-”).  In my case it was -orders.php: someone had “saved off” copy of a file called orders.php. (People, this is why we [...]