Does anyone know what the double dashes in the following grep line mean?
grep -c -- "->"
The intent of the line is to have a long listing of a directory piped to it, and for it to count off the symbolic links based on the "->" characters. I'm not sure why the scripter decided to search for the links in this manner. Anyway, I found it interesting, but can't seem to find any sort of documentation on the double dash. Am I missing something?
I'd like to know if there is any documentation on this and where.
Thanks!