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[unix] grep for special characters in Unix

The one that worked for me is:

grep -e '->'

The -e means that the next argument is the pattern, and won't be interpreted as an argument.

From: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-to-grep-for-string-769460/

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