How to grep '---' in Linux? grep: unrecognized option '---'

Question

I have a newly installed web application. In that there is a drop down where one option is ---. What I want to do is change that to All. So I navig

Answer 1

Another way is to escape each - with a backslash.

grep '\-\-\-' your_file

Escaping only the first - works too:

grep '\---' your_file

An alternative without quotes:

grep \\--- your_file